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Domaine Denis Bachelet

Denis Bachelet is one of my shortest visits since he normally has five cuvées, though due to the larger volume in 2023, the Les Evocelles is now an additional bottling rather than being blended into Les Corbeaux. “It is the biggest vintage I have made,” he tells me. “I estimate the date of harvest by the date of flowering and that date was put back because the weather was not so good in mid-August. Then, there was the heat wave so I started the harvest on September 9 and picked over six days. Everything is destemmed, as usual. All wines are matured in 50% new oak using some of the barrels that I bought for the 2021 vintage.” This year, I found a tad more black fruit in his cuvées due to the warm July, perhaps not quite the complexity or mineralité evident in the nascent 2022s, yet with his trademark precision and pedigree. These are wines that you just want to drink and enjoy. Quantities are always small although at least there is a little more to go round in 2023, unlike in 2024 where he has around half the crop.

From The Lord Giveth…Burgundy 2023 (Jan 2025) by Neal Martin

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