Given the combination of exceptional vineyards, an excellent vintage, and Marc and Alexandre Bacheletโs attention to detail in the vines and in the cellar, the first release of the domainโs Puligny wines garnered immediate recognition, locally as well as internationally. In the conservative world of Burgundyโs top communes, such rapid rise to prominence is as rare as it is telling. The brothers do the Cรดte de Beauneโs rising generation proud. The seat of the domain is the family homestead in Dezize-lรจs-Maranges, just southwest of Santenay.
โEveryone is on the lookout for Burgundyโs next white-wine star (i.e., the new Pierre-Yves Colin Morey), and brothers Marc and Alexandre Bachelet, who created this property in 2005 from their fatherโs and uncleโs land, are quietly making a solid claim.
Their low-key winery is in Dezize-lรจs-Maranges, at the southern tip of the Cรดte de Beaune, but their vineyards represent a great cross-section of Puligny, Chassagne and Meursault.
Theirs is winemaking in the current, structure-minded styleโlots of air for the juice, fermenting in larger barrels, finishing in steel. The wines have both character and precision, which is evident even in their village-level Puligny.โ
โ JON BONNE, PUNCHDRINK.COM, THE NEXT STARS OF BURGUNDY