Wine Details

Bouchard Père & Fils • Beaune du Château
Premier Cru
200593939491
France • Bourgogne • Côte d'Or
100%
2005 (1 in Cellar)
93
Jeff Tolmie - 04.10.2008
Day two of the bottle tasting. The bouquet has become a lot more fruity but the raw minerally vegetation is still present. Spicy red fruits and, yes a little rainy earth. A complex nose. The flavours a full and complex. The balance of tannins and acids are excellent. I wish I could identify that floral/vegetative note.
93
Jeff Tolmie - 03.10.2008
Ruby red, light to medium depth of color and quite clear. Minerally nose, with vegetable leaves. A little white pepper. The fruit is quite subdued initally but there are hints of red cherries and ruhbarb. Let's see what happens with time. Good strong tannins and acid are what you notice up front, with stewed red cherries. Finish is long and full, coating your entire mouth in fine tannins and toasted fruits. Lovely complexity on both the nose and the palate.
94
- Wine Enthusiast
From Bouchard's home vineyard, this is one of their signature wines. In 2005, it has produced a luscious, fruity wine whose richness is only part of its wonderful floating
91
Stephen Tanzer - Int. Wine Cellars
Good bright red. Enticing aromas of cherry, raspberry, strawberry, leather, chocolate and flowers. Plush and sweet, with lovely spicy lift and energy to the red fruit flavors. Not a big wine but ripe, seamless and suave. Finishes with late notes of wild strawberry and leather.
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- www.sommelierguild.com
The favourite by far, but not without controversy. Half matured in new French oak. Intense strawberry, floral, earthy, and wooded nose. “Full-bodied” pinot with great balance of acidity, tannin and warmth, although somewhat short. Left to develop, oak aroma intensified.
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- www.burgundy-report.com
For such a massive production - over 100,000 bottles from 21 hectares of 17 different 1er crus - this wine delivers impressively high quality in almost every vintage, 2005 is no exception. This has a lovely full nose with a creamy depth to the fruit and eventually that faintly vanilla/caramel barrel note that most of these reds are wearing. Concentrated, but vs the previous wines this is more supple and has much finer tannin. Really exemplary balance coupled with good length. I think this is a wine to buy by the case in this vintage.
16.05.09
1
25.80
Ehrlich's Weinkontor
02.10.08
1
25.50
Ehrlich's Weinkontor
Notes
Alcohol: 13%
Vintage: What the Bouchard has to say

The climatic year 2005 was greatly influenced by the North-East wind which blew throughout the vegetative cycle. The climate was characterised by dry weather with no excessive heat, which is ideal for Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.

* Monthly average temperatures were close to normal throughout the year.
* Little rainfall throughout the year, which was brought mainly by storms.
* Good sunshine throughout the year, close to normal.
* Dry, sunny and especially long summer.

The "ban des vendanges" i.e. the legal authorisation to pick the grapes was given on September 12th. The harvest took place under ideal weather : little or no rain, mild temperatures, lots of sunshine. The harvest was exceptionally long at our Domaine and we finished on September 28th.

2005 was once again a very early maturing vintage which produced perfectly healthy grapes, which meant that it was hardly necessary to sort them when they arrived at the winery.

Since the weather was particularly favourable this year, we could choose the ideal date to obtain perfect maturity in each parcel. The differences in the composition of the soils and sub-soils, the age of the vine stocks and the way each vine was trained were paramount in the evolution of the maturing process of each vineyard. Thanks to the summer drought and the coolness of July, the grapes were exceptionally healthy. They were very well formed and of medium size, with thick and deeply coloured skins. In the stainless steel vats, the juice rapidly took a bright and lively colour. Musts expressed straightforward and very expressive flavours of raspberry, blackcurrant, blueberry and blackberry.

After rather long vatting, the wines which were put into oak barrels had deep colour, very intense aromas of red fruit, great structure and long persistency. Although the malolactic fermentations were very long (they finished at the beginning of Summer), it did not change the expression of our wines which have kept great freshness enhanced by some salinity (due to the drought of the summer), which gives a very lingering finish. The vintage has evolved very slowly all along the barrel ageing.


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