2019 Marsannay Boivin

My mammoth tasting with Pierre-Jean Roty is always something to look forward to. This year it was a complete showing of his 2019s in barrel plus 2018s in bottle (and a plate of his mum’s gougeres, which are technically barred from my diet, though I did sneak in one.) “I started the harvest on 12 September and picked over the next eight days.” Pierre-Jean explained. “Flowering went well and uniform. There were three spells of heat that caused some stress on dry/clayey soils or young vines during the second wave of heat, but it was dryness instead of heat that caused stress. Yields were slightly down on 2018. The 2019s are very expressive aromatically - they could be like a more complex 2012. There is more elegance and finer texture across the portfolio in 2019. They are lace-like. The 2018s are heavier and more structured, whilst the 2019s are gentler and have more buvabilité.”