Winemaker Notes
Côte de Bouqueyraux refers to a unique section of terroir along the Bougros Grand Cru vineyards. In this area, vineyards slope at a 45° angle, and the vines grow on bedrock soil.
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2019 Chablis Grand Cru Bougros Côte de Bouqueyreaux is one of the highlights of Piuze's portfolio—as is invariably the case. Unwinding in the glass with notes of clear honey, Anjou pear, dried white flowers, fresh pastry and light reduction, it's full-bodied, satiny and chiseled, with superb concentration and a long, penetrating finish. Rating : 95+
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Jasper Morris
This is the last chance for this vineyard, which is part of the very steep slope above the road. It has since been pulled out. Fuller yellow. The nose is more restrained than the regular Bougros. There is an impressive core of powerful white fruit here, less spicy, but more intensity at the back with crystalline clarity.
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Wine Spectator
This white is bright and lively, displaying lime blossom, lemon, apple and stone flavors. Sleek and focused, an herbal element creeps in on the finish. Best from 2022 through 2028
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
The source of the most racy, light and tactile, yet uniquely complex Chardonnay, Chablis, while considered part of Burgundy, actually reaches far past the most northern stretch of the Côte d’Or proper. Its vineyards cover hillsides surrounding the small village of Chablis about 100 miles north of Dijon, making it actually closer to Champagne than to Burgundy. Champagne and Chablis have a unique soil type in common called Kimmeridgian, which isn’t found anywhere else in the world except southern England. A 180 million year-old geologic formation of decomposed clay and limestone, containing tiny fossilized oyster shells, spans from the Dorset village of Kimmeridge in southern England all the way down through Champagne, and to the soils of Chablis. This soil type produces wines full of structure, austerity, minerality, salinity and finesse.
Chablis Grands Crus vineyards are all located at ideal elevations and exposition on the acclaimed Kimmeridgian soil, an ancient clay-limestone soil that lends intensity and finesse to its wines. The vineyards outside of Grands Crus are Premiers Crus, and outlying from those is Petit Chablis. Chablis Grand Cru, as well as most Premier Cru Chablis, can age for many years.