2023 Bourgogne Blanc

Henri Boillot’s Bourgogne Blanc is made with mainly declassified fruit from the villages of Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, Saint-Romain and Auxey-Duresses. It’s always an impressive wine that offers a brilliant introduction to the estate – and the 2023 is no different. The wine is chalky and limey, with a spicy hint of white pepper. It’s got a bright core of fruit, with a fleshiness too – the rich white peach playing alongside pithy citrus and gunflint notes, all cut by taut acidity. It’s gorgeous and tight now, hinting at what’s to come, with a pleasing phenolic grip on the long, saline finish. Brilliant value.