2015 Fêtes des Vins de Bourgueil: 21st March 2015 (3rd post) + preferred 2014s

Benoît Amirault, Domaine Yannick Amirault

Tasting Bourgueil in the rain of Saturday

   

Nathalie Omasson (above and below) 

Bertrand Nau, Nau Frères

 Domaine les Pins – Pitault-Landry

 Christophe Blot, Domaine de la Taille aux Loups

 Hervé Menard, Domaine Menard 

 I wonder how lomg Guillaume can talk 

without drawing breath?!

 Guillaume Lapaque, Vins de Bourgueil

 Philippe Pitault,  Domaine les Pins – Pitault-Landry  

 Emmanuel Caslot, Domaine de la Chevalerie

2014 Bourgueil

Unfortunately tasting conditions on Saturday were far from ideal – it was cold under 10˚C and it rained for part of the time heavily enough for drips to come through the wooden slats of the huts, so it wasn't a lot of fun tasting cold 2014 Bourgueil with cold hands and feet. However, it had to be done. 

The majority of the Bourgueil producers present (around 40 in total) were showing some of their 2014s, although there were a few producers with just previous vintages. Some of the 2014s are already in bottle but many are samples of unfinished wines. 

My preferred wines from the 2014s I tasted

2014 Domaine de la Petite Mairie 

2014 Petit Mont, Domaine du Petit Bondieu (Thomas Pichet)

2014 Vieilles Vignes, Nathalie Omasson 

2014 Vieilles Vignes, Nau Frères

2014 Jeunes Vignes + Vieilles Vignes, Audebert 

2014 La Vigne aux Alouettes, Domaine Ménard

2014 Chévrette + Cuvée du Grand Clos, Michel, Joëlle, Jérémy Lorieux  

2014 Cuvée les Rochettes + Vieilles Vignes, Pitault-Landry

2014 Pied de la Butte + Haut de la Butte + Mi-Pente, Domaine de la Butte

2014 Jean-Marie Amirault

2014 Clos de l'Abbaye

2014 Cuvée les Chesnaies, Lamé Delisle Boucard

2014 La Perinelle, Domaine des Raguenières 

2014 La Petite Cave, Yannick Amirault

2014 Rouge de Minière, Château de la Minière

2014 Tsoin Tsoin, Laurent Herlin

2014 Sur les Hauts + Closeries, Aurélien Revillot

2014 Cuvée Santenay, Jean-Marc Breton