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Florence Cholet is a winemaker to watch – having returned from working abroad she is putting her small domaine on the map. This is their top wine – 85-year-old vines growing in a vineyard just below the Grand Cru Batard-Montrachet. You can see some of that site’s famous muscle, there is a deep core of flavour, but Puligny’s racy side is here too in its lifted stone fruit and peach perfume.
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| Weight | 75 kg |
|---|---|
| Colour | White |
| Country | France |
| Domaine | Domaine Florence Cholet |
| Grape | Chardonnay |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Vintage | 2018 |
Produced from 85-year-old vines planted just below Bâtard-Montrachet. One of the finest village vineyards in Puligny. les Enseignères always shows more lift and perfume on the nose, seeming both more powerful and tighter on the palate; one can feel the old vines in its concentration.
Florence Cholet is an exciting prospect. Widely travelled, she has worked across France, the US and Australia, and has now returned to tiny Corcelles les Arts to take on her family domaine.
She told us that picking date was key in 2020, as she thinks it always is. She doesn’t use much technical analysis, she knows her vineyards, tastes the grapes and looks at the skins when she’s deciding when to harvest.
The domaine no longer uses pesticides or herbicides, the vineyards are ploughed, and all picking is done by hand. The domaine’s old vines give naturally low yields and grape selection, in the vineyard and winery, is severe. Wine making is traditional, using a minimum of technology – new oak is used very sparingly, fermentations happen with natural yeasts and are left to run their course. Florence has increased the length of her white elevage – her whites are now bottled around January, so 13-14 months post-harvest. She does no battonage after the malolactic fermentation to retain freshness. Instead, Florence leaves more lees in the wine – a better way of gaining richness and complexity without oxidation.
Florence’s whites display the vintage’s character with style and energy – she’s outperforming some big names from her seemingly humble sites. Her reds are transparent, perfumed wines which I love to drink young, though something about their balance and energy suggests to me that they will surprise us in the cellar.
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