Domaine Tawse Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Les Vergelesses Blanc

Marchand-Tawse with Pascal Marchand (Herbert Smith Freehills, London) : Grown on hard limestone on the top of the hill, says Pascal Marchand, which creates a wine full of minerality and well able to prosper in a warm vintage like 2020. Just a touch of new oak. A very open and appealing wine. Crisp green apple and a hint of white flowers on the nose. There's good concentration of succulent, appetising fruit and a steely finish. I hadn't had a Marchand-Tawse …

more round and tropical compared to the 2019, but its not flabby. intense tropical and fruit aromas. good mouthfeel. balanced with low/no noticable oak popping out. Good QPR from vinovisor.com.

Waves of lemon, lychee, white peach, pear juice, guava, toasted macadamia, pie crust. Fresh and balanced and linear.

Medium expressive nose displaying fresh ripe yellow fruit, lemon curd, a hint of pear and pineapple, rainwater, a hint of oak and limestone. Medium concentration, subtle fresh yellow fruit with a hint of white, pure and refreshing, good balance and precision, bright acidity, strong limestone mineral, and a medium long subtle yellow fruit driven finish. This is a straightforward food friendly wine that will work well with shellfish.

So this is my third bottle of this in basically the last six months (note to self - hide one or two so you don't drink them all in one year), and based on my two previous notes, this is a wine that is still in the process of evolving, as each bottle has shown differently. I do tend, in this pre-mox environment, to drink my white Burgs on the young side, but I'm finding the progression here fairly interesting, …

There is a distinct lemony note on the palate that I don’t recall from my first note a few months back. Very likable, if not overly complex.

Another producer that I'm trying for the first time. I think these guys are more known for their red wines, but I'm enjoying this right now. This is more substantive on the palate than the Bourgogne I just tried from Mallard (and in fairness to the Mallard, this is a more expensive wine). This is a little abrupt on the finish, but other than that, no complaints.