Chambolle Musigny’s three most famous terroirs are the Grand Crus Musigny and Bonnes-Mares, and Premier Cru Amoureuses. All three fetch prices north of $500/bot (some well into four figures), and are among Burgundy’s most iconic and long lived wines.
If you had to pick a fourth best terroir, it’d be Les Fuées, a premier cru immediately next to Grand Cru Bonnes-Mares. And it’s here that today’s wine originates. The Domaine Boursot farms an exceptional collection of 75+ year old vines in Fuées, and the wine is extraordinary. We spent yesterday morning tasting with the Boursot brothers, and they’re an exciting domaine that gets better each year.
Vinous’s Neal Martin describes Boursot’s wines as “superb,” “excellent,” “very fine,” and “worth seeking out,” finding the 2020 Fuées “velvety smooth with impressive depth” and a “long, persistent finish.” Indeed Fuées marries power and gracefulness in a way only a Chambolle vineyard can. The nose is dark and brooding, with cassis, violets, and gingerbread. The mouth is huge and intense — today it’s bold and impressive; in a few years it will be refined, elegant, ethereal, and smooth.
JF Mugnier’s Chambolle Fuées goes for around $900/bot, we’re certainly not saying Boursot’s would win in a prizefight. But pound for pound, at 1/9 the cost, it more than holds its own.
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Boursot Chambolle-Musigny 1er “Fuées” 2020
bottle price: $135 $99
