Anne-Marie & Jean-Marc Vincent – 2017

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Tasted in Santenay with Anne-Marie & Jean-Marc Vincent, 15 November 2018.

Domaine Anne-Marie & Jean-Marc Vincent
3 Rue Sainte-Agathe
21590 Santenay
Tel: +33 3 80 20 67 37

Jean-Marc on 2018:
2018 was quite complicated, we had some of the storms but it meant that the hydric stress was not so bad. For me it’s a year of the century provided you didn’t have too much yield. A really good 1969 for instance. I was crying 10 days before the harvest, thinking that we have no rendement, 15 days later, ooh we have rendement! The rain really brought a fine balance to the grapes. My first Auxey – I expected 30 hl/ha – there was 45 hl/ha – 50% more! I still think a great white vintage.

Jean-Marc on 2017:
I’m really happy with it. We started our harvest on the 1st September, and worked hard to finish as quickly as we could. I’m happy with the volume and the quality – luckily we had no frost here. 2017 is small 2018 – provided that the rendement was correct. Of-course it was another warm vintage!

The wines…

As always, a selection that astounds. Great viticulture plus great wine-making, equals great wines.

The wines were racked just before harvest with their fine lees – vinification without sulfur – the reds the same. The whites are now to be sealed with DIAM Origine (80%)

2017 Bourgogne Chardonnay
Vines in commune of Chassagne
Hmm a wide and finely citrus nose. Hmm (again), a little richness, layered, saline but mouth-wateringly citrus, lovely vibration of flavour in the finish

2017 Montagny 1er Cru
Bought grapes
A lovely volume of aroma here. Hmm, melting over the palate, layers of deeply comforting flavour without any lack of energy, very mouth-watering, still touched by oak.

2017 Santenay Les Potets Blanc
Near the casino. ‘I lost 40% to mildew. But its my best here – it seems mildew is the answer!’
An invitation to drink – like the others – some depth and a little citrus interest. Hmm, more mineral, more width, melting over the palate – saline – absouely delicious and also super long – really moreish.

2017 Auxey-Duresses Le Hautes
80 year-old vines, always small grapes always great quality, same quality as my last wines, just different
Hmm, more intense. Fuller in the mouth – a delicatesse, an elegance but no lack of depth – beautifully textured. A long finishing wave of flavour. Beautiful – great Auxey – bravo!

2017 Santenay 1er Gravières
A new plantation here this year that has 17k vines per hectare. This wine only at 14k
Hmm nice vibration, narrower but very deep. Sweeter,larger, slowly melting. Delicious

2017 Santenay 1er Le Beaurepaire
Marne with lots of limestone more a Chablis geology-style though a different epoch.
Also a freshness and salinity to the nose, touched with citrus. Very open, more mineral, a multitude of fine complexities. Wide long, lip-smacking, very persistent.

2017 Puligny-Montrachet Corvées des Vignes
‘I think since 2017 we have really regularized the yield per vine so no longer have instances of single vines with too many grapes. We’re a big team for 6 hectares – 10 – but the attention to detail is paying dividends.’
More depth and intensity to the nose. More mineral, intense, layered, a certain reductive style, but really intense – fabulous wine. Bravo…

Les Rouges:

2017 Santenay Vieilles-Vignes
Just two lieu dits principally, and over 50 year-old vines. Like the whites, elevage without sulfur until the wine is assembled – this 38 hl/ha from old vines 13.4° natural!
Lots of colour. Deep, some herb and spice – impressive weight. Supple, concentrated, a touch of texture from the tannin. Great Santenay, indeed simply great wine! Complex and saline and really impressive finishing. Bravo!

2017 Santenay 1er Le Beaurepaire
A little less colour – 30%, 40 hl/ha again. 13.7° natural. More width, a similar herb and spice nose but more calm. Supple, more fresh depth of flavour, extra tannin with the tiniest, almost powdery, texture of tannin. Wide, open, delicious dark fruited flavour – much more accessible and easy to assimilate – equally delicious.

2017 Santenay 1er Passetemps
14k/hectare pinot fin planting. Usually no more than 35 hl/ha yields.
Deep colour again. Fresher but less depth of aroma – deep, dark fruit, with a similar herb and spice top note. Supple – wider, plenty of powder fine tannin again, super elegant without any loss of concentration or width. A touch floral in the finish – Bravo…
2017 Santenay 1er Les Gravières
Old vines of 70 years-old.
Again really a lot of colour. Wide a slight biscuit reduction, some high tones – tight bass notes. Ooh – the nose may be tight but the palate is full of energy and complexity. Depth of fine complexity. Ooh a great finish – the nose is behind the elegant Passetemps today, but it has time on its side!

2016 Santenay ‘Gravité’
Much longer elevage and more barrel for this, so don’t they show it before bottling – and often, even not then!
Ooh – wide, spice a certain extra cleanliness to the nose with this age, suggesting flowers. Plenty of tannin, really a lot of volume a touch of oak. Lovely width – this has such great scale!

2012 Santenay ‘Gravité’
Impact again – really fine complex a depth of aroma perhaps still with a touch of new oak spice. Fresh, great line, silkier, some oak but a fruit of super purity that rises from the depth – almost a reduction. Silkier than the 16 today.

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