Bourgogne Chardonnay Domaine Michel Bouzereau 2008 75cl

This is declassified "baby Meursault". It’s super rich and complex with pure, pure toasty fruit, vanilla, grapefruit, pineapple and lemon and lime too. Overall it’s a superbly balanced, complex glass of wine.

Jean-Baptiste Bouzereau has now taken over the running and winemaking at this domaine in Meursault. Although he respects his father’s long-held belief that wine should taste of wine and not of oak and that prolonged ageing on the lees gives added complexity to the wine, he has also made his own impression on the estate’s wines.

They are now fresher and zippier whilst maintaining the complexity and expressiveness which have made this estate so well thought of. The vineyards are treated according to the principles of sustainable viticulture and the wines are fermented in oak cask with both the alcoholic and malolactic fermentation taking place naturally.