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Here is the second of our final four tranches totalling about 2,000 tasting notes on Burgundy's most attractive 2010s. The notes below are grouped by producer, alphabetically by (sur)name, whites before reds and wines roughly ascending in grandeur.
DOMAINE PIERRE DAMOY
Quite dark crimson. Damson fruit. Dry finish. Nice unforced...
Sweet and candified and a tad too easy and jagged. Not the...
Deep crimson. Big and deep and a good effort but pretty dry on...
DOMAINE DANIEL DAMPT – MAISON DAMPT
This is the négoce label used by Jean Defaix and Daniel Dampt ...
Dusty lemon, classic Chablis – lightly chalky texture. Good...
More concentration than the straight Chablis, a little more...
This too is rich and a touch honeyed. More like a Beaune white...
DOMAINE VINCENT DAMPT
Absolutely archetypal apples and cream, soft and rounded on the...
Oldest vines, giving the lowest yields of his premiers crus. You...
Tighter and more restrained in style, more citric than the other...
Oaked. Retains the Chablis shimmer beneath its voluptuous layers...
DOMAINE VINCENT DANCER
Fine and silky and refined though by no means concentrated! GV...
Some honey on the nose. Racy and with real structure. Great...
A bit more concentrated than the village wine. Silky and dense...
Cool nose. A bit austere. (JR)
Rather stewed fruit on the nose. Can’t really see enough...
DOMAINE HENRI DARNAT
Mineral and slaty. Almost wincing acidity, but has the weight of...
Monopole. Smoke, powerful chalky texture, more concentration...
Worlds apart from his Meursaults – much bigger on the nose...
DOMAINE DARVIOT-PERRIN
Cool. Clean, very revitalising. Crystal clear in fact. Lovely...
Seems lean after the Rijckaert wines, initially at least. Tight...
Racy and lively and just soars on the palate. Lots of acidity...
Racy and quite delicate. Good depths too. Quite fine and long....
Lively, penetrating citrus and mineral. Intense, almost a touch...
High toned but good concentration. One of the tarter Perrières....
Very racy indeed – so much so it is almost fizzing! Difficult to...
Firm light raspberry red. Very charming floral nose without any...
Delicate dark fruit. Silky sweet and more red-fruited in the...
Dark and medium deep crimson. Fresh and peppery on the nose...
Pale crimson. Rather muted nose. But lovely fresh fruit on the...
Juicy and fresh and very lively in a cherry cough-drop idiom...
DOMAINE DEBRAY
Light nose. Simple pear fruit and less pronounced acidity than...
Good precision on the nose. And reasonable ripeness and...
Pale gold. Light nose. Solid stuff and a bit stolid to boot...
Pale, which is fine, but really quite thin and dull, which is...
Pale raspberry red. Pure, piercing fruit. Light but very honest...
Lightly earthy nose with some crunchy fruit and grainy texture...
DOMAINE BERNARD DEFAIX
Rather muted nose. Dampened aromas and flavour. Stolid. (JR)
DOMAINE JEAN DEFAIX
Dusty but so alive. Has that slight chalky texture of classic...
Harvested after the rain therefore softer. Gentle, very fluid...
Harvested before the rain, more concentrated. Very different on...
DOMAINE CHRISTOPHE DENIZOT
Côte d’Or savour here. Just a tad bland. (JR)
Pale ruby. A bit edgy and vegy on the nose. Light and tart. Not...
JEAN-YVES DEVEVEY – DOMAINE JEAN-YVES DEVEVEY
Very light nose. Marked acidity but pretty ungenerous. Lacks...
Light and racy and ticks the boxes but it’s not thrilling...
Tight and taut. Needs to unwind a bit but all the elements are...
DOMAINE DE LA DOUAIX
There’s a slightly rude, raw element to this, but at least it...
Very deep crimson. Very raw, almost rhubarby nose. Sweet fruit...
Milder and more malty than the Terres Nobles bottling. Drying...
JEAN-PAUL ET...
