Tasted in Meursault with Camille & Guillaume, 21 November 2023.
Domaine Camille & Guillaume Boillot
51 Impasse du Pres des Taupes
ZA Les Camps Lins
21190 Meursault
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Domaines don’t come much newer than this – the first vintage for C&G Boillot is 2022!
The Boillot name is well-known in and around Volnay and Pommard – in this case Guillaume is the son of Henri Boillot and worked with his father at that domaine since 2011. Camille has a, by no means, less important wine background, she’s the fifth generation of a winemaking family from Pommard – her father is Christophe Violot-Guillemard.
Despite strong existing connections to their family domaines, the pair have decided that the best way forward for them and their 4 kids – plus a large dog! – was to work together on their own creation – and that’s Domaine Camille & Guillaume Boillot.
Camille explains, “We want to keep a certain signature – Guillaume has more wine-making experience though we still share everything. We like a light toast and a small reduction but still with concentration and with fine length – that’s what we hope to do. Bottled with natural cork with a wax top. We have 2 parcels in the domaine – our Bourgogne in Puligny and Puligny Enceignères plus a small négoce operation – we totaled 12k bottles in our first vintage and it will be about double that in 2023. 40k bottles would be a good sustainable target for us and we have the space for that. The wines that we have from this first vintage are already sold – mainly exported.”
The wines…
Given the experience of this pair, it’s no surprise that you will find some great wines here – absolutely delicious – but it’s still an impressive achievement for their first vintage together. I wish them very well!
Bottling was completed 2 weeks earlier – 6 white and 2 red cuvées:
2022 Bourgogne Corvee aux Moines
Cote d’Or fruit but not on the label. 2 year-old barrels of 350-litres – a vertical press is used for both colours.
Really perfumed – no new oak. Hmm – large-scaled, energetic – super intensity – that’s a beauty. I love that citrus finishing energy.
2022 Meursault Les Clous
So from the higher slopes in Meursault.
Hmm, perfumed, tiny spice notes too – very classic. Lovely, vibrant energy, much more saline and with some spiced bread complexity – this I love – tension and salinity in this finish too!
2022 Meursault-Blagny 1er
More focused, more direct also more airy aromatics. Sweeter and fuller in the mouth. Absolutely delicious despite being a little on the sweet side today.
500-l barrels also 1 year-old like the last – so none new.
Hmm, floral, with a suggestion of noble reduction, that’s a great invitation. A more mineral style of Charmes – beautifully complex – it’s clearly a great 1er Cru – simply excellent Meursault-Charmes – complex and saline finishing, very modestly generous.
2022 Puligny-Montrachet Enceignères
Hmm, a small reduction. Direct – that’s a wonderful line of flavour, again a very saline but juicy wine – more tension for sure – I love this finish – so hauntingly long finishing!
2022 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Caillerets
A new barrel but 420-litres – ‘maybe the only one in Burgundy this year.’
A little faint toast but a very shy nose vs the previous. Large scale and complex – really complex. That’s absolutely delicious – just a nose short of being a great wine today.
Les Reds:
2022 Pommard 1er Cru
Chanières and Chanlins in small quantities, blended – elevage in a white-wine barrel. All destemmed.
Hmm – that’s a very very attractive perfume – fine, focused red fruit here. Concentrated, supple but becoming fluid over the palate sappy finishing – and yes, holding really well!
2022 Corton-Renardes
Really a bundle of high-toned red fruit and flowers here. Direct and intense. High toned fruit but with energy and personality – even a menthol freshness. For keeping – but I could still see myself drinking this wine tonight 😉