Tasted in Monthelie with Cataldina Lippo, 02 June 2022.
Domaine Monthelie Douhairet Porcheret
1 Rue Cadette
21190 Monthelie
Tel: +33 6 26 05 33 65
www.domainemontheliedouhairet.com
More reports with Domaine Monthelie Douhairet Porcheret
Cataldina on 2021:
“We had to protect 6 ha with candles in 21 and the frost came at the same time as this year – fortunately this year required just half a hectare of candles – our Meursault 1er – but that was because the vines were less advanced than at the same time in 2021. So 21 saw some losses in our reds but not catastrophic. Clearly, the whites were indeed a catastrophe! Very different in style compared to 2020 where we worried we might end up a little too ripe – that was completely the reverse in 21 but we seem to have extracted the good tannins – fortunately, it was easy in the cuverie as the fermentations went well.”
Cataldina on 2020:
“For the 2020s, all the bottling was done in the first week of March this year. Our white volume was a bit down but I’d describe the volume for the reds as acceptable. Of course, all is sold. We are lucky that 2020 is a demonstrative vintage but even in its youth it’s very attractive. We started harvesting already on the 23rd of August and, close enough, we finishêd in August too – certainly for the domaine vines.”
The wines…
I only tasted reds and not all the normal range, but what a beautiful set of wines – there really were some wines worth searching for…
Two parcels in this vintage – but the bought parts are all harvested by the domaine.
A nose with a beautifully pure first impression. Broad and mouth-watering over the palate – a little structural tannin but with hardly any grain. Vibrant finishing. That’s simply excellent wine – in fact it’s a great village Maranges.
2020 Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Prevots
A rounder nose – redder fruited – warmer but also gaining in perfume. Extra energy and seemingly more mouth-filling – rounder, less direct than the Maranges. Really a lot of middle and finishing flavour – the stony fruit flavour holds very long….
Next to Volnay Clos des Chênes
Less deep colour. Airy, perfumed with a voluptuous roundness of fruit below, again a little stony and perfumed. Hmm, depth, extra from the fruit, lovely, slightly velvet texture – you feel the extra ‘premier-cru-ness.’ Really top!
More airy – very lovely red fruit – less width and depth than the Monthelie but here is a super-attractive invitation. More vibrant – not the depth of the last but here is so delicious with enough weight to make me want to take glass after glass of this. I love the texture of this too – Bravo!
Have very old vines here – ‘which resist the dryness very well.’
A more vibrant freshness of aroma almost a little gooseberry accent here. Super in the mouth – open, structural, so mouth-watering – almost juicy. A clarity of flavour and vibrancy of finish. Another great wine…
2020 Pommard
From Chanières but not on the label.
A width in this depth of aroma – a little tighter but still quite perfumed in the top notes. Direct but silky – that, despite its directness and structure, is a wine of elegant proportions for a village Pommard. Juicy in the finishing flavour. Vibrant with some small bitters.
2020 Pommard 1er Chanlins
Also a lovely top note of perfumed fruit and flowers – a more vertical nose. Ultra-fine texture, width, a growing weight of concentration – density – slowly mouth-watering. A slowly fading width that, today, has more herb and bitter but I exaggerate as it’s so accommodating. A simply excellent wine.