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Domaine Anne Parent

Affable winemaker Anne Parent is like your favorite aunt, always up for a good natter. Parent’s samples had been taken from barrel and were poured from prepared half-bottles so that we could taste in her ground-floor tasting room. “Two thousand and seventeen is a charming vintage with nice fruit, but not the same structure as 2016 or 2018,” Anne Parent opined. “We had a lower level of tannin with good acidity and maturity. The spring was fantastic, although August was a bit chaotic. We started picking on September 5, with everything de-stemmed. My immediate thought is that the wines are lighter in colour, but the expression of fruit is very fine. I thought to myself, fair enough, perhaps we should reduce the proportion of new oak or length of barrel maturation, as they don’t have the same structure as other vintages. Then I could keep their seductive element. So I did this with all the cuvées except the Corton. I like the fruit in 2017. It is fresh and not as complex as 2016 or as rich as 2015, but it looks like 2007 in its youth, even if it has a bigger structure.” I have always enjoyed Parent’s wines. They often need time in bottle because the new oak is a little more pronounced than other growers, a subject we have discussed in the past. Seek out her Bourgogne Rouge Sélection Pomone, a special selection from old vines that undergoes longer maceration. This domaine is another option for Corton-Renardes, for Parent excels here in 2017, though the heart of the range, her Pommard Premier Crus, includes standouts from Les Chanlins and Chaponnières.

From 2017 Burgundy: A Modern Classic (Jan 2019) by Neal Martin

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