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Focus Burgundy
90 | Louis Jadot

$95

2018 Beaune 1er Cru Clos des Ursules
Domaine des Héritiers ^ This walled vineyard within Vignes Franches has been part
of the Jadot domaine since 1826. A signature
holding, it often produces a remarkably longlived wine. In 2018, the tannins are present
but subsumed by ripe cherry fruit, sleek, floral and luscious. It's a wine you could enjoy
now with rare roast beef or seared duck
breast, though it may prove to be much more
compelling with age. § Kobrand, Purchase, NY

CHAMBOLLE-MUSIGNY

Bonnes Mares' terre brune, providing the
wine's coffee-ground concentration that
turns toward a deep well of fruit. Floral elements emerge expressed in fruit from lighter
terre blanche, higher up the hill. There's a
lively back and forth as the elements grow
increasingly knit: A wine in the process of
becoming, this is riveting in its clarity and
focus. § Kobrand, Purchase, NY
524070

94 | Domaine Bertagna

$155

2018 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les
Plantes ^ This wine grows in the center of

Chambolle, below the village toward the
base of the hill. In years past, Bertagna's Les
Plantes often showed the warmth of a warm
season, but this wine transforms the 2018
vintage into heady beauty, its red fruit light,
cool and constant as a waterfall. The flavors
are intensified by a reductive note, like gun
flint; the fruit counters that with some delicate green florals, earthy barnyard scents
and black fruit flavors as the wine opens and
turns racy over the course of several days. §
Taub Family Selections, Boca Raton, FL
524069

524071

98 | Lucien Le Moine

$250

95 | Albert Bichot

$579

95 | Louis Jadot

$480

2018 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les
Baudes ^ Mounir Saouma calls Les Baudes
his baby Bonnes Mares, as it shares with
that neighboring grand cru the shifts from
limestone to clay and white to red soils. He
and his wife, Rotem, produce their wines
with an extended élevage: They bottled this
2018 after it rested two years with the lees
in barrel, a process, Mounir reports, that
transformed the sweet ripeness of the vintage to freshness. The sheer exuberance of
this Chambolle wasn't enough to convince
every last taster on our panel (one found the
earthy barnyard character too prominent).
For this critic, this was the wine of the tasting (which included nearly 450 Burgundies
over the course of several weeks). Spring rose,
summer raspberry, pipe tobacco and autumn
earth all come together in this wine's complexity, its sunny fruit and breathable rocky
tannins imprinted in a powerful flavor memory that lives long after each sip. § Vintus, NY
524068
2018 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les
Amoureuses ^ From a parcel owned and
farmed by a family on Bichot's team, this
Amoureuses has the stamina of a Musigny.
The wine's fragrance glows with intensity, layering rose and rock, rosehips and red plums.
Oak plays a prominent role in the youthful
structure, but the wine sustains it, turning
the oak to sophisticated advantage. Amply
ripe yet runway-model thin, the wine lasts
on floral notes, along with a sense of rocky
grandeur. § Albert Bichot USA, Glen Allen, VA
524158
2018 Bonnes Mares Grand Cru Domaine
Louis Jadot ^ A supple blueberry beauty, this
hides a deeper drive behind that puppy fat,
the structure of a long-lived Burgundy revealing itself over the course of a week. Jadot's
0.67-acre holding is all on the Chambolle
side of the cru. A third of the vines are on
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