1971, 2001 & 2011 Château de Beauregard Pouilly-Fuissé Vers Cras

BY NEAL MARTIN | JUNE 06, 2022

No Burrier, no Premier Cru! Frédéric Burrier, the congenial proprietor of Château de Beauregard in the village of Fuissé, was the driving force that, after a decade of relentless campaigning, convinced the INAO that 22 vineyards in Pouilly-Fuissé merited promotion to Premier Cru status, commencing with the 2020 vintage. Readers can look forward to more detail on its first intake in a forthcoming report. In the meantime, Burrier was a special guest at the “Burgfest” group’s annual wild boar dinner in Savigny-lès-Beaune. He brought three mature vintages from one of those promoted vineyards, Vers Cras, that vindicated why they deserve Premier Cru status, each demonstrating that the finest Mâconnais wines can mature in bottle as well as their equivalents in the Côte d’Or. These were all poured from magnum.