Marchand & Burch Marsannay 2017
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- $78
- Drink by: 2021 - 2033
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The partnership of Burgundian winemaker Pascal Marchand and West Australian wine producer Jeff Burch, a Burgundian tragic, is producing a range of exceptional wines from this region. This wine comes from two plots in Marsannay, a northern subregion of the Côte de Nuits – Les Longeroies and the En la Poulotte.
Les Longeroies, sits on the side of a very steep hill facing south east as it slopes down to a flatter plain, while the En la Poulotte is in the village of Couchey, just South of Marsannay. The combination of the two brings together the elegance and finesse of Les Longeroies with the structure of En la Poulotte.
Marchand adopts a process of cold maceration, regular foot stomping and regular pumpovers to achieve a very gentle extraction. The wine gets 14 months in oak of which only 15% is new and there is no fining or filtration.
Lifted perfumes of violets and strawberry with a spicy subtle minerally aromatic. The tannins are fine and slightly chalky which contribute to a wine of elegance and structural integrity. The supple fruit flavours have the character and complexity to evolve into more intriguing characters with ageing. The combination of excellent fruit and sympathetic winemaking has created a wine that is vibrant and bursting with life and energy.
Ray Jordan has been writing about wine for more than 40 years. His first articles were published in the early issues of national wine magazine Winestate in the late 1970s when he worked in Sydney as a newspaper correspondent. From 1989 Ray wrote more than 3000 columns as a regular newspaper wine columnist. He currently writes a regular column for the special business publication Business News and is one of the main contributors to national wine platform Wine Pilot. In 2017 Ray co-authored The Way it Was – A History of The Early Days of the Margaret River Wine Industry and previously wrote Wine in the Blood: Australia’s Family Wine Estates, published in Mandarin and English. In 2011 Ray was awarded WA Wine Press Club Jack Mann Memorial Medal for his contribution to the WA wine industry. His love of wine is as strong as his love of the blues and tasting the thousands of wines that cross his bench each year allows him to indulge in both.
