Patrick Piuze – Terroir de Courgis Chablis – 2019
$34.10
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100% Chardonnay
Courgis is from a single vineyard on the left bank with clay topsoil on top of Kimmeridgian limestone bedrock. It’s typically the most weighty (think ripe, round fruit) of the Terroir wines. Fermented and aged in tank.
The 2019 Chablis Terroir de Courgis is superb, unwinding to reveal notions of green apple, white flowers, freshly baked bread, clear honey and iodine. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and concentrated, it’s tightly wound, with real depth at the core and a long, saline finish. This gets my nod as Piuze’s finest communal bottling this year, and it’s one that will merit at least a few years’ patience. Wine Advocate – 91+
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Patrick Piuze
Patrick Piuze- a Montreal native- took the region by storm when he arrived over decade ago. He worked for Leflaive, Jean-Marc Brocard and Jean-Marie Guffens before starting his own label in 2008, and has very quickly come to be counted among the legendary names of the region. The guy is hella-good fun to hang out with... and while that may sound like an irrelevant detail, it is not: Piuze works with purchased fruit, and his great relationships with the growers of Chablis have allowed him access to choice parcels in all of the great sites. As for technique, he is a maverick. While 90% of Chablis is machine-harvested, he harvests everything by hand, a paramount factor in the quality of his wines. While most cellars use a pneumatic press, he uses a vertical one because he likes the initial blast of oxygen for the wines in hopes of preventing pre-mox later, a way of thinking also espoused by Jean-Marc Roulot.
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