Santenay

[Jeff Grossman]

Wowsa! Thank you.

 

[Steve Edmunds]

originally posted by Joe_Perry:
Yes.

good one!

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

Kermit Lynch, in his book, seems to rate Chassagne a titch higher. He says that, due to the geological formation and water table level underlying each region, Chassagne has had its own cellar space, while Puligny has not, and therefore also has longer experience bottling their own wines. Of course this was a while back.

I had some appealing white Santenay many years go - possibly Latour. Very nice, tart and appley. No malo, presumably.

 

[Thor]

Not sure what you mean here. If you mean it's grand cru, I'd take issue with you and say that there's still loads of premier cru and village Puligny that is better than most of the corresponding level from other villages.

I agree with you, from what I remember back in my less elevated chardonnay-drinking years (what I now call my salad dressing days), but my point (which you pretty much get) was that when I hear people talking about Puligny vineyards, I mostly hear them talking about those vineyards (GC and not), not "Puligny" as such. I was just wondering out loud if maybe that helps to create a pro-Chassagne impression in some minds. I don't really know, of course.

But you don't like white Burgundy, anyway! :)

From pretty much anywhere between Chablis and Thvenet's vineyards, that's true.