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The October 2023 Auction: Part 1
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"The 2012 Meursault 1er Cru Caillerets, one of the Domaine's most propitious holdings, has a bewitching bouquet with orange zest, apricot blossom, flint and wet limestone scents that possess laser-like focus. The palate is very well balanced with superb mineralité and a powerful (again like Coche-Dury’s fellow Meursault wines this year) spicy finish that lingers on and on. This is a feisty Caillerets that will age with style and panache. It is a measure of how busy I have been over the last few months that I forgot that I had tasted through Coche-Dury's 2012 at the Domaine back in November. How can you forget tasting one of the finest exponents of white Burgundy? Luckily enough, I stumbled upon the notes nestling among reams of 2013. 'It was a more difficult vintage than I can remember,' remarked Raphaël Coche at the time of my visit. 'You had to be very vigilant. In 2013 we were more prepared but the 2012 came as a shock.' Well, that did not seem to affect the wines that were quite simply astonishing. The two wines that rivet you to the spot are the Corton-Charlemagne, which is predictable, and the Meursault Genevrières, which might be less so. These were generally tensile, razor-sharp and deeply complex wines that will give pleasure to those lucky enough to receive allocations in the future."
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"The 2012 Meursault 1er Cru Caillerets, one of the Domaine's most propitious holdings, has a bewitching bouquet with orange zest, apricot blossom, flint and wet limestone scents that possess laser-like focus. The palate is very well balanced with superb mineralité and a powerful (again like Coche-Dury’s fellow Meursault wines this year) spicy finish that lingers on and on. This is a feisty Caillerets that will age with style and panache. It is a measure of how busy I have been over the last few months that I forgot that I had tasted through Coche-Dury's 2012 at the Domaine back in November. How can you forget tasting one of the finest exponents of white Burgundy? Luckily enough, I stumbled upon the notes nestling among reams of 2013. 'It was a more difficult vintage than I can remember,' remarked Raphaël Coche at the time of my visit. 'You had to be very vigilant. In 2013 we were more prepared but the 2012 came as a shock.' Well, that did not seem to affect the wines that were quite simply astonishing. The two wines that rivet you to the spot are the Corton-Charlemagne, which is predictable, and the Meursault Genevrières, which might be less so. These were generally tensile, razor-sharp and deeply complex wines that will give pleasure to those lucky enough to receive allocations in the future."
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