2021 Chablis Bougros Cote Bouguerots
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Tasting notes
The 2021 Chablis Bougros Côte Bouguerots Grand Cru is still a bit oaky on the nose, but it feels simpatico with the fruit. Fine delineation, with touches of peach skins and dried honey emerging with time, improves with aeration. The palate is well balanced with orange pith and pear on the entry. Moderate depth; the acidity is nicely judged with a brisk and quite sapid finish. Not bad overall, though not achieving the heights it showed from barrel, and it is difficult to see where it will go from here. Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting.
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Neal Martin, Vinous
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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The 2021 Chablis Grand Cru Bougros Côte Bouguerots is superb, unwinding in the glass with aromas of orange zest, white flowers, fresh mint, buttery pastry and clam liquor, followed by a medium to full-bodied, deep and satiny palate with a sweet core of fruit, a bright spine of tangy acidity and a long, orange oil-inflected finish.
A cool and highly restrained nose reluctantly offers up its array of citrus, tidal pool, quinine and oyster shell. The exceptionally rich, even opulent, medium-weight plus flavors also brim with sappy dry extract on the mineral-driven, powerful and remarkably long finish. This is perhaps slightly less elegant than it typically is, but it is most impressive all the same. (93-95)/2033+
About the producer
Established in the late 1950s, William Fèvre was one of the leaders in Chablis’s renaissance. Today he crafts benchmark expressions of fine Chardonnay from some of the top vineyard sites in the region, working with many of the best Premier and Grand Cru vineyards.