Burgundy 2010, Day 3: Potel, Morey, Fontaine-Gagnard, Fourrier, Alain Chavy & J. Confuron Contetidot | Bibendum Times2010 is a classic vintage for Fontaine-Gagnard and Chassagne-Montrachet. The small berries at harvest created a very concentrated, powerful style of Chassagne-Montrachet, although this could never be called over-ripe. There is a clear line of acidity through the wines that bring to mind 2008 but, again, the wines showed great fruit concentration.
The Caillerets vineyard, planted in the 1960s, exemplified the style of the 2010 vintage. From a very stony plot of land, which had an early harvest, this is a very balanced wine between strict, linear minerality and sweet, full-bodied fruit.
After a morning of spectacular white Burgundy, lunch was spent in the car with ham sandwiches picked up from Carrefour supermarket while we waited outside Latour-Giraud.
Ah, the highs are high and the lows are low.
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