Domaine de la Vougeraie, Bonnes Mares Grand Cru, 2006 SO030423_Loire Remarkably well-placed despite its village

Remarkably well-placed despite its village AOC designation

Under the late Eric Albada Jelgersma's careful stewardship

and he has built Calderara into the structured

drawn from those original Dundee Hills plantings

Domaine de la Vougeraie, Bonnes Mares Grand Cru, 2006 SO030423_Loire Remarkably well-placed despite its villageThis is the top of the Cte de Nuits, full stop Bonnes Mares is one of Burgundy's great grand crus, and Domaine de la Vougeraie farms a coveted parcel of it biodynamically (organic from its 1999 founding, with biodynamics begun in 2001, on the leading edge of the movement). The vines run from over a century old to younger plantings, on an east facing slice partly sheltered by an old quarry's rock, which gives the wine its trademark mix of muscle and