Tasted in Premeaux with Mathilde Queiros, 26 April 2024.
Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron
“Les Vignottes”
21700 Premeaux-Prissey
Tel: +33 3 80 62 31 08
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Mathilde on 2023:
“The 2023 harvest started 7th September – the rendement was high in this vintage and that was despite a green harvest. But we think we have a very good vintage even though there’s still much elevage to come. It’s a vintage where both fermentations went quite quickly. It’s still too early to say when we will bottle but normally it’s done during the October to February period, the white a little earlier.”
The Wines…
My first full 2023 tasting. Some wines were impressively ready and remarkably great for wines of Nuits at this age – others clearly not – but there seems to be much to look forward to !!
2023 Côte de Nuits Villages Les Vignottes
The other side of the road from the Clos de la Marechale, vines next to the domaine
Plenty of colour. Good depth and some carbon minerality to this nose. The texture is super here – the wine is direct and silky but with obvious concentration too – widening impressively – like the nose with that finishing graphite too. Long – thats an impressive first 23 for me from the CdN. I like this balance very much.
South of the village, but almost in the village.
Extra breadth of aroma, faint herb complexity too. A more structural wine but also more energetically juicy. Really a wine that saturates the palate with its delicious finishing flavours – that is going to be a great villages!
2023 Chambolle-Musigny
An assembly of three parcels Condemines, Pas de Chat and Derrière le Four.
As it should be, floral and inviting. Pure, beautifully defined, a tannin with a small dryness but no grain. Then bursting in width and energy, quite dark red fruit but not black – this finish is very impressively long too. A beauty !!
2023 Nuits St.Georges 1er Les Chaboeufs
16 year old vines (2/3rds of the parcel) but from a massale selection of the vines.
A nose of impressive scale and weight. Darker fruit but that’s pushed by a tiny reduction. Open but with depth of flavour – the texture more velvet and the middle and finishing flavours are the most intense so far. A wine that impresses and is really long too.
Again more colour vs most 2022s – impressive scale to this nose – with super-impressive depth. Very classy, concentrated and mouth-watering – vs the juiciness of the 22s – but fluid and sophisticated. That’s a great wine – bravo! Super-sophisticated despite its concentration. Licorice and anise complexity here too.
2023 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru
Chatelots and Feuselottes old vines.
A little graphite but also extra high-toned freshness. More direct and mouth-watering – here almost a juiciness – less the cushioned depth of flavour of the Boudots and more an intensity of flavour – nicely vibrant. Delicious!
2023 Vosne-Romanée 1er Beaumonts
Another older vine.
Exzra breadth and a small reduction. Width in the flavour too – an energy and intensity more towards the style of the Chambolle than the Nuits. The middle and finishing flavour becoming more supple and wide – here the wine relaxes beautifully – it’s a bit less ready than the previous two but really impresses in the texture and finish.
2023 Clos de Vougeot
From behind the chateau across from Musigny – ‘I think we are well situated!’
A small barrel spice but it has a lovely depth of concentrated aroma too. This melts beautifully over the palate – so impressively approachable – can this be CV? Large scale and more ready than the Beaumonts at this stage – what a wonderful wine…
2023 Romanée St.Vivant
Here is a nose that has width but offers very few notes of interest today – it’s tight. In the mouth a hint more fluid and indeed a next level of textural class – it’s beautiful. Then the palette of flavour broadens into such a great length of finish – always understated today – except for its class. There is much here to wait for!