Tasted in Fuissé with sister & brother team, Sandrine Thibert-Needham & Christophe Thibert, 05 August 2020.
Domaine Thibert Père et Fils
20 rue Adrien Arcelin
71960 Fuissé
Tel: +33 3 85 27 02 66
www.domaine-thibert.com
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I was über-impressed by the 2017s that I tasted from this domaine earlier this year but today, 2016 is the commercial vintage. So post-lockdown I took the chance to pay a visit and taste some of those too.
Today, it’s a minimum 20 months of elevage – since the 2017s – so the 2018s will only be bottled this week. The duration of elevage has been steadily increasing since 2007 onwards. “Don’t talk to my accountant about stock-levels,” says Christophe, “But the wines are better for it!”
The wines…
A tasting that really cements my impression of the 2017s that I tasted for the March 2020 report. Always freshness, great energy and such a fine concentration too – really one of the top echelon domaines of the Mâconnais today…
The first few wines were tasted in the domaine’s courtyard in the sunshine – so the notes are shorter…
It’s mainly Beaujolais Blanc in here.
A freshness here and a nice, lime-style fruit-skin aroma. Mouth-filling, freshness and energy. Great energy, love the lime skin style and energy here. Finishing very well, yet again with lovely energy. Top Bourgogne.
2016 Mâcon-Verzé
Aromatically deeper, almost a hint of musk, but opening and becoming ever-more pure. Lots of energy, lots of core concentration, the combination of intensity and concentration here is very impressive. A wine to wait for but this is an excellent super wine!
2016 Saint-Véran Champ Rond
Vines in Leynes.
A little oak is showing here. A fuller, more mouth-filling, impression. Great energy again. Long, with some finishing oak. Very tasty wine which I would wait for but I’d wait less time than the last…
A wide nose with plenty of sweetness, yellow fruit and modestly oaked. Fresh, lovely attack, aided a little by some dissolved gas. I love the mineral line here, the dry extract, the zestiness here. That’s a great wine!
2016 Pouilly-Vinzelles Les Longeay
A wide nose with plenty of oak is my first impression. Yet here is a wine that is vibrant and has the lovely energy of its siblings. Mouth-watering with an engaging salinity. Excellent, but wait for the oak to fade…
A rented vine, just over 0.5 hectares worth. This cuvée was so good between 2007-09 that Christophe eventually decided to make its own bottling and not blend. Part of this vineyard has almost 85-year-old vines.
This has a silky, shiny nose – perfumed yet not overtly floral. Hmm – lots of energy, mouth-filling too – this is delicious and complex too. Never hard and much more for drinking today than many of the previous wines. There’s a beautiful extra complexity of something in the finish too. Bravo – this is already completely approachable.
2015 Pouilly-Fuissé Vignes Blanches
Vines in the mid-slope with southern exposure. ‘A nicely draining area.’
There’s a ripe width but not overly ripe, more of an aromatic warmth. Nice width of flavour, with energy and a good complexity – the impression of a little gas on the texture. Lovely for 2015 which usually, and in this case also, lacks a little of the clarity of the vintages around it, but delicious!
Still modest colour. A mineral depth and freshness. Hmm, this has concentration, it has depth, it has ingraining, growing energetic intensity – practically electric. It’s a young wine still, slowly mouth-watering in waves of flavour.
2014 Pouilly-Fuissé Vignes Blanches
A nose that’s a little less energetic, not quite sombre but with a width of attractive, slightly sweet aroma. Nicely sizzling energy here – long and tasty – less full attack than the previous Saint-Véran. Super, all the same.
2012 Pouilly-Fuissé Les Cras
Freshness and width – a little depth of more mature aroma starting to show too. A lovely mineral stance, slowly mouth-watering, almost juicy. This is showing very well and is at the younger end of ready! Excellent wine.
From magnum and as such, no surprise, to see the much lighter, younger colour.
Fresh and perfumed – even the nose has fresh energy here. A little cold but here is the best blend of complexity, freshness and almost drinkability. Great PF!
2010 Pouilly-Fuissé Vignes Blanches
Also magnum, also a nicely lighter colour.
Nicely perfumed, young, not full power, but it’s fine, young and very inviting. Supple. A lovely mix of concentration and acidity. Beautifully finishing, nicely bitter finishing. Super wine.