Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus

2009 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus

By billn on October 16, 2011

Medium, medium-plus colour. Some high, tones, even hints of mint over a red and blueberry fruit with vanilla/coconut accents. Sweet, growing in the mid-palate with creamy, ripe fruit and very good underlying acidity. This is large-scaled and very long finishing, but it’s mainly in the vanilla-coconut register, which I find a shame today. Very easy to drink but in a, perhaps, non-Burgundian way. I’m sure that time will cure all my concerns.

2002 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus

By billn on March 10, 2010

Medium, medium-plus colour. The nose is very fine; there’s latent oak that brings a little espresso macchiato into the equation but essentially it’s about a fresh, dark red fruit and occasional faint whiffs of bacon. Smooth, fresh and intense, it’s a classic middle-years wine – forward acidity and a narrow, lean complexion, but long too. This will be excellent – eventually! I won’t open another for 5 years, but I expect I’ll need to wait another five for real dividends. Super.

2007 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus

By on November 30, 2009 #asides

Medium-plus color. Intense violets over red cherry and a faint white pepper. Very, very silky – gorgeous depth of plush red fruit. Very, very long with just a hint of barrel flavour. It’s a beauty.

2006 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus

By on March 31, 2008 #asides

A softer and redder nose. A narrow entry but it bursts across the palate with accessible ripe fruit – structure and complexity follow in the next wave. I think it follows the Bèze much more successfully in 2006 than it did in 2005. Super.

1997 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus

By on July 31, 2007 #asides

The nose is reasonably fresh and quite wide. In this company the palate is very fresh yet still appears balanced. The fruit is tight yet ripe, but is wrapped in fine tannin that adheres to your teeth – they seem ripe enough. This is the youngest wine I’ve yet come across in this series of ’97’s, I would not hesitate in saying leave these for another 5 years. Seems to have real potential.

1998 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus

By on June 30, 2006 #asides

Deep ruby-coloured. High tones over a glossy base, plus some meaty and faintly herbal notes – great at the start, interesting but not great at the end. Depth, freshness and density, plenty of tannin, but only faintly astringent. Very nice fruit and length, needs at least another 3 or 4 years.

1998 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus

By on March 31, 2006 #asides

Deep ruby-coloured. High tones over a glossy base, plus some meaty and faintly herbal notes – great at the start, interesting but not great at the end. Depth, freshness and density, plenty of tannin, but only faintly astringent. Very nice fruit and length, needs at least another 3 or 4 years.

2003 Bouchard Père et Fils Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus

By on February 28, 2005 #asides

Despite the heat of 2003, in the company of the older vintages it manages to neatly display it’s origin, a little redder in the face, a little louder and carrying a few extra pounds, but it’s without doubt Vigne de l’Enfant Jesus. Silky, slightly fat palate with a little oak still to meld. Good tannins and mouthwatering. At this young age the concentration and ripeness of the fruit smothers attempts at complexity, but there’s time for that in the future. It will be very interesting to make the same comparison in 10 years.

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