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2020 Boyer de Bar Chardonnay Les Peyrarols Vin de France 750 ml
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Meursault Know-How and Languedoc Sunshine
Vincent Boyer’s white Burgundies boast three placements on The French Laundry's wine list, not to mention appearances at restaurants like New York’s Eleven Madison Park and Per Se. Unsurprisingly, his Meursaults go for $85-$130 per bottle in wine shops.
That’s why his 2020 Boyer de Bar Chardonnay Les Peyrarols is the cure for the $80 Meursault blues. Crafted from Languedoc fruit, made exactly like his wines from his priceless home appellation, it’s PRECISELY what white-Burgundy drinkers crave: It’s leesy, grippy, deeply colored, and concentrated, making it an extraordinary value in Chardonnay.
Vincent is not the only Burgundian to seek out ways to expand his repertoire. Just as Jean-Marc Roulot has Bodega Chacra in Argentina and Jean-Nicolas Méo has Nicolas-Jay in Oregon, Vincent sought out a new, more affordable winemaking frontier with his childhood friend Emmanuel Lucas de Bar, on de Bar's family vineyard.
The wine is made in a 20 year old, north-facing, organically farmed vineyard with limestone soils in the Languedoc's Hérault. It’s aged first in cask, then transferred to concrete eggs for 8 months of aging—exactly the same way Vincent raises his Meursaults.
Everything about this wine is perfectly put together, all the way down to its elegant blue label and blue wax on the cork. With collectors and investors pushing the prices of white Burgundy into fresh heights of absurdity, this is such a delicious remedy.