Tasted in St.Bris with Damien De Luget – 13 March 2024.
Domaine Verret
14 Route de Champs
89530 Saint-Bris-le-Vineux
Tel: +33 3 86 53 31 81
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Damien on 2023:
“It was quite a long vintage for us – between the crémant and the reds we needed 5 weeks to harvest everything – but it’s a good vintage – we have quality. We started early for the cremants – and we have a good volume too.”
Damien on 2022:
“All are now bottled, the last in December – the climats of Irancy for instance. A good volume, less than 2023, but a concentrated and hot vintage – we had to go early again so that we had some acidity.”
The wines…
For my taste I found ‘greater’ wines in 2021 but here are also delicious wines with a little more generosity than that vintage.
Some new labels here – since February:
2022 Bourgogne Côtes d’Auxerre Pinot Noir
Pinot vines in St.Bris – south-facing but with cooler soils near the wood of St.Cyr.
Plenty of colour. Depth to this cherry fruited nose – it’s a good invitation. Supple – mouth-filling, juicy, crunchy fruit – finishing well. Well-priced and delicious.
2022 Irancy
This cuvée representing 11 hectares in 2022… Bottled just after the last harvest – slightly longer maceration, this with some older barrel elevage the last was tank elevage.
A faint reduction to start. Larger scale, slightly rounder too – broader complexity – and proper complexity too – that’s got a lovely energy that brings the flavour more forward. Simply lovely wine!
2022 Irancy l’Ame du Domaine
The old label here. 3 different climats assembled – some new oak included in this 12 month elevage.
A deeper register of aroma – more spice, maybe a subtle smoky accent too. Silky, direct more obviously concentrated too. Much more sophisticated texturally, wider and longer finishing – you could actually enjoy this today but I’d be waiting 2-3 years before attacking.
2022 Irancy Palotte
New labels for the lieu-dits too…
A breadth of freshness here. A more direct wine – vibrant energy, less generous with more structure – but what a juicy and fine finishing energy and flavour. Wait 3 years for this – 5 will be optimal – but it’s a super wine.
2022 Irancy Mazelots
More perfumed with violets over a cherry-stone base. A return to the silkiness – the tannin visible in this case but without grain. Large in the finish, holding with a subtle dryness of tannin. Super wine – but a proper 5-year wait for this one!
The Côteaux Bourguignon sold out!
2022 Coteaux Bourguignons Rosé
All gamay this vintage.
A freshness coupled to width – there’s a subtle aromatic generosity too. Plenty of CO2 – but this fizzy, juicy wine has a delicious energy – just a subtle finishing structure – but here there’s no reason to wait – it’s delicious.
Les Whites:
2022 Bourgogne Aligoté
Wide with energy and a small stony element. Easy over the palate – silky, slightly generous. A very simple but refreshing and tasty.
2022 Bourgogne Côte D’Auxerre Chardonnay
Vines in St. Bris – this with a manual harvest. Like the red – normally 50% tank but that amount much reduced in 2022.
A suggestion of reductive toastiness. This half tank, half wood elevage. A suppleness, and easiness of middle flavours but there’s a burst of energy and intensity in the finish – a lovely finish. Yum!
2022 Chablis
All tank elevage – 2ha in Courgis
A more open aromatic, with inviting complexity – it’s lovely. Plenty of scale and a hint of structure. The finish – broader and finely mouth-watering – a delicious finish. Very good.
2022 Chablis 1er Beauroy
Some barrel elevage here.
A smaller, rounder nose but with a little extra fine complexity. Super width, more obviously saline and a little spice too – presumably from the barrel. Also longer. A wine I’d keep 2-3 years not because the barrel is overt but to tease out the extra complexity.
2022 Chablis 1er Beauroy l’Ame du Domaine
All barrel elevage for this – 20% new.
Very aromatic – barrel included. Larger scale – almost an extra fluidity despite a more obvious concentration – the finish is a stronger one too – but wait 3-4 years for this to late the oak fade. I think it will be excellent !!
2022 Cotes d’Auxerre Les Gaudiers
A narrow nose but with a floral accent. Mouth-filling – here is a lovely texture, though with a small tannic accent. The finish has a beautiful line of flavour but today is a little compact in most directions – only faintly oaked today – but give it 2 years…
2022 St.Bris
Tank elevage.
Narrow top notes but there’s depth of aroma here. Large scale, growing in sauvignon character – with a direct and slightly dry, salinity for the finish, slightly zesty too. That will be lovely but needs to open a little more.
2022 St.Bris Vaupiary
Sauvignon Gris – part hand harvested. Part barrel elevage.
A larger scale of aroma – some extra spice too. In the mouth there’s larger scale too – complex, saline but fruity too – some boiled sweets and super complexity – I think this an excellent wine – I’d still be tempted to wait 2-3 years but what lovely wine it is already!