2010 Marsannay Les Longeroies

The 2010 Marsannay Les Longeroies shows off impeccable minerality and energy. This is a less overly fruit forward style than the Grasses Tetes. Bright red fruit, flowers, mint and crushed rocks stain the palate on the long, focused finish. This is another stunning showing from Bruno Clair. The Longeroies is a great wine for the dinner table. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2020. This is a fabulous set of wines from Bruno Clair and his long-time oenologist Philippe Brun. The harvest started on September 25. Yields were 22-30 hectoliters per hectare, which is to say a good 10% less than 2003, a torrid vintage marked by tiny yields. Clair describes the fruit as healthy, with no botrytis and soft tannins from the late harvest. The 2010s were 100% destemmed. New oak ranged from 25% for the villages to 50% for the Grand Crus, except for the Marsannays, which saw very little new oak. A Becky Wasserman Selection, Le Serbet, various American importers, including: Martin Scott Wines, Little Neck, NY; tel. (516) 327-0808, Fine Vines, Melrose Park, IL; tel. (708) 343-6702, The Source, San Francisco, CA; tel. (415) 621-6151

Very fruity nose. Lively and just a hint of oak but what a lot of pleasure there is here! (JR)

The 2010 Marsannay Les Longeroies shows off impeccable minerality and energy. This is a less overly fruit forward style than the Grasses Tetes. Bright red fruit, flowers, mint and crushed rocks stain the palate on the long, focused finish. This is another stunning showing from Bruno Clair. The Longeroies is a great wine for the dinner table. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2020. ||This is a fabulous set of wines from Bruno Clair and his long-time oenologist Philippe Brun. The harvest started on September 25. Yields were 22-30 hectoliters per hectare, which is to say a good 10% less than 2003, a torrid vintage marked by tiny yields. Clair describes the fruit as healthy, with no botrytis and soft tannins from the late harvest. The 2010s were 100% destemmed. New oak ranged from 25% for the villages to 50% for the Grand Crus, except for the Marsannays, which saw very little new oak.||A Becky Wasserman Selection, Le Serbet, various American importers, including: Martin Scott Wines, Little Neck, NY; tel. (516) 327-0808, Fine Vines, Melrose Park, IL; tel. (708) 343-6702, The Source, San Francisco, CA; tel. (415) 621-6151 Wine Advocate.February, 2012