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Wine Description
The Story
Born out of the old the Clair-Dau estate, Bruno Clair’s wings are spread widely over the Côte d’Or covering nine appellations in total. Bruno, fi rst and foremost, is a vigneron and, with the help of winemaker Philippe Brun, produces some of Burgundy’s purest examples, adopting an approach that involves back-breaking vineyard work and minimal intervention winemaking, using a mixture of large old wooden foudres and smaller barriques for the lon...
Wine Information
Long, round and silky Gevrey, fine cherry fruit with earthier notes of stone, mineral and dark chocolate. Complex and intense but so alluring. Beautiful. A first rate Gevrey Premier Cru vineyard high up on the slope next door to Clos St Jacques, whilst there is a similar aromatic quality to the wines of its neighbour the taste profile is very different, with suaver, rounder fruit coming thanks to the white clay soils found here in this limesto...
Vintage 2014
The 2014 vintage in Burgundy was a very complicated one, although less so than those in 2013, 2012 and 2011, which featured dramatic crop shortages due to shatter, bad fruit sets and hailstorms.
In 2014, there were two problems which resulted in crop loss: hail in the Côte de Beaune, especially inMeursault; and poor flowering in some of the hillside vineyards of Puligny and Meursault.
The winter temperatures were above average with only ...
