We’d chant our love for these wines oftener if we had the bottles to keep pace. Finding offer-worthy parcels, long a challenge with Bouvet, is virtually impossible these days.
Bouvet is a happy instance of ‘crazy demand’ and ‘expensive’ not in fact converging, though how long will it last? Critics are starting to sniff around here (and like what they’re sniffing) so the low cost of entry will be a ‘remember when’ story soon enough.
Antoine likes barrels for both fermentation and élévage, a choice you feel across the range. Barrels texturize the wines considerably though fruit profiles trend clear and precise. Mid-palates are supple and flavory rather than piercing. Wine-to-wine distinctiveness is a particular strength here. Bouvet’s wines taste like their sites and varietals and not like…each other. Rosé has become something of a speciality.
Cheers,
Jason
