Patrick Piuze Chablis Bougros Grand Cru 2018

Chardonnay
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Product Details


Varietal

Producer

Vintage
2018

Size
750ML

Features
Green Wine

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Winemaker Notes

Notes of juicy nectarine fruit is balanced by a smoke and salty finish. The wine comes from vines planted in 1956 that are located on the plateau. Fermented and aged in neutral barrels.

Professional Ratings

  • 93
    This is from the plateau and has a very plush yet layered feel with peach creme-brulée and lime custard. Peels back at the finish and reveals a late, stony mineral feel.
  • 93

    Aromas of ripe peaches, pears and almond paste preface the 2018 Chablis Grand Cru Bougros, a full-bodied, ample and blocky wine that's quite structured and reserved by the standards of this often-extroverted climat, displaying a layered mid-palate that's framed by a generous endowment of chewy dry extract. It's an impressive but muscular example of the vintage. Rating: 93+

  • 90

    Sunny and warm, with broad richness in its flavors of honeycomb and unsalted butter, this is heady and dense. It’s as if the wine is so big you can’t see it, only revel in its gentle grape-skin flavors. Better to wait five or six years for those flavors to come into focus.

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Patrick Piuze

Patrick Piuze

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Patrick Piuze Patrick Piuze in the vineyards  Winery Image

After running a wine bar in Montreal for two years, Patrick Piuze moved to Burgundy in 2000 and for his first autumn there he spent the harvest with Olivier Leflaive in Puligny-Montrachet. Shortly after, Piuze was entrusted with the vinification of Laflaive’s new Chablis project and Patrick spent four years there honing his skills as a winemaker. Next, he spent a year at Verget with Jean-Marie Guffens where he developed a passion for exploring the distinct terroirs of Chablis. At this point in his career, he was earning recognition for the high quality wines he was making and after just a year at Verget, Jean-Marc Brocard recruited him to be cellar master and head wine maker. During this period, Piuze realized there was much more he was capable of achieving and made the most important decision of his life: to set out on his own and bottle under his own name. Not one to ease into things slowly, his first vintage in 2008 consisted of 20 different bottlings, all Chablis except for one.

Piuze purchases all his fruit (never must or juice) and focuses on sourcing grapes from old-vines situated in prime locations. Interestingly, these vineyards are available because their location on the slopes makes them more difficult to work and impossible to machine harvest. This suits Piuze since he chooses to harvest every vineyard by hand anyway, even at the Petit Chablis and Village level! He has long-term contracts with his growers and only works with producers who are practicing sustainable viticulture. He has his own wine-making facility where he uses temperature controlled steel tanks and only used barrels for the fermentation and élevage – no new oak here. The approach in the cellar is hands-off; indigenous yeasts are used and nothing is added nor taken away. Piuze believes that Chardonnay is perfect for showcasing the expression of the various terroirs of Chablis, and each of his many bottlings captures a distinctive facet of the region.

Despite doing nearly all the work himself, Piuze seems to have limitless energy and drive. He seems to be in a constant state of excitement and his incredible wines echo his liveliness and sincerity. Though his first vintage was just in 2008, Piuze already has the makings of a legendary producer.

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