2013 Vintage
Timed Online Auction, 6 - 13 March 2023
2013 Vintage theme
About the SessionJust how well do modern-era South African wines perform as they get older ? One of the most important measures of great wine is that it should be age-worthy, that is it should become more pleasurable and more interesting to drink with time in the bottle.
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About this Item
Based in Meursault, between the villages of Puligny-Montrachet and Volnay, Henri Boillot is at the epicentre of great winemaking. The Boillots have been tending vines and making wines since 1885. Henri joined in 1975, bought out his siblings in 2005 and his son Guillaume joined in 2008. It totals 19 hectares, planted almost equally to red and white. Included herein, are 4 hectares of the famous monopole vineyard Clos de la Mouchère, which has developed a cult following. In a very short space of time, they have built an extraordinary reputation for the sheer quality of their Burgundies, it is no surprise that Allen Meadows thinks this superstar producer ‘has arguably become the finest pure négoce specializing in white Burgundy today’.
Critics Ratings
'The 2013 Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Clos de la Mouchère has a comparatively straightforward if well-defined bouquet although it does not have the cohesion and complexity of Boillot's Les Perrières. The palate has a brisk and stony entry. There is plenty of salinity here: strict and precise with quite a punchy sea-influenced finish. It calls out for a plate of fruits de mer that would counterbalance its terseness.' – Neal Martin, Wine Advocate, 91/100 (May 2016)
'An old favourite… Dense and rich with a top note of struck matches and some of the delicacy that has been missing from some of these Lea & Sandeman white burgundies. I can’t see how anyone would fail to be pleased by this – at a price. Okay, it’s not subtle but… Long.' – Jancis Robinson, JancisRobinson.com, 18/20 (Jan 2015)
'Medium straw-yellow. Musky aromas of peach, apricot and ginger; more soil driven and less exotic than the village Puligny. Supply, silky and highly concentrated, offering extremely smooth flavors of stone fruits and flowers. An outstanding 2013 with a very long, pliant back end. Boillot describes this as “the best wine of the cave in 2013”.' – Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, 93/100 (May 2015)
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