Coche-Dury Bourgogne Chardonnay 2022

91 Points Vinous

The 20222 Bourgogne Blanc has a delineated and focused bouquet that shrugs off the warmth of the growing season. It offers citrus peel, hints of chamomile and crushed stone. The palate is well balanced with a dab of stem ginger that defines the finish. There's plenty of energy coiled up in this Bourgogne Blanc and wonderful length. This is excellent. Raphael Coche greeted me at the winery just outside Meursault village. Before tasting his 2022s (since, like Olivier Lamy and Domaine Leflaive, they no longer show the wines in barrel), we ventured out into the vines for a brief inspection of his cover crops. As you might expect, Coche is fastidious about which cover crops he uses. He has a machine that “shoots” the seeds exactly 60 mm into the earth, a mixture of different sized bulbs, to make sure that the pedicule can take leaf over the surface.