‘With its clear and bright pale gold colour, its expressive and delicate nose of white flowers and wild hedgerow and the fresh and generous palate of yellow fruit and spice, this Puligny-Montrachet clearly flirts with premier cru level and a ‘Coup de Coeur’ award was very close.’ Guide Hachette.
BACHEY-LEGROS, Santenay-le-Haut
The Bachey-Legros are possibly unique in Burgundy in that their vineyard holdings have grown across six generations as each generation consisted of an only child.
Brothers Samuel and Lénaic have recently taken over their 19-ha family estate from their mother, Christiane. They have inherited a tremendous vineyard genetic profile. About 80% of the vineyards were planted between 1935 and 1955, in some of the best lieu-dits of Santenay, and the old vines are more ‘gardened’ than farmed; each of them is let live, produce and die as naturally as possible. These old vines have deep roots which imbue each wine with a marked terroir identity, and which produce small berries with concentrated and balanced fruit sugars. Manual harvest, keen observation and attention to the vineyard needs, rigorous selection (tri) at harvest time and subtle use of new oak.