Domaine Tupinier‑Bautista Mercurey Rouge 1er Cru En Sazenay 2023 | Mercurey, Burgundy

The Wine 

From one of Mercurey’s standout premier cru sites, where cooler exposition and limestone-rich soils give the wine its lift and perfume. Red cherry, dried herbs and crushed stone with plenty of freshness and fine mineral tension underneath. Fully destemmed fruit undergoes a long cold soak before gentle fermentation and élevage in mostly seasoned Chassin barrels.

The Producer 

“one of the Côte Chalonnaise's finest estates, and I encourage readers wishing to encounter red and white Mercurey at its most gourmand and seductive to seek out his wines.” - William Kelley

Manu Bautista, along with nephew Anthony have really propelled this estate to new heights - helped along in 2016 by a superb new gravity-fed winery. The estate is now considered without question one of the finest in the cote chalonnaise. Attention to detail is meticulous. Manu likes to destem all his fruit and follows this with a long cold soak and gentle fermentation of 14 days.

Elevage is exclusively done in bespoke Chassin barrels, mostly older but with some new for the 1er cru’s like Clos du Roi. Simply delicious wines with layers of plush fruit, energy and poise. So exciting to still find producers like this in Burgundy.