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    2016 Domaine Fabien Coche Chardonnay Bourgogne 750 ml

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    Meursault Complexity without the Markup

    The 2016 Domaine Fabien Coche Bourgogne Blanc’s similarities to the family’s legendary Meursaults are striking in every way but the price. With its expertly-sculpted harmony between ripe orchard fruit and stony minerality, the 2016 shows why the wines of Domaine Fabien Coche are among white Burgundy’s finest values—even when they are selling for $75 or more. Today, we have this rare wine for just $29.99 per bottle, a price that's nearly unheard-of for white Burgundy of this pedigree and deliciousness.

    Sourced from vineyards that were once a part of the cherished terroir of cult Burgundy producer J-F Coche-Dury, it’s no wonder this value white far over-delivers on its under $30 price. The 2016 Domaine Fabien Coche Bourgogne Blanc was crafted by a cousin of the master, and is just as elevated as you would expect from the great family. It drips with pears and Honeycrisp apples, yellow flowers, saffron, marzipan, and hazelnuts.

    Last year, when we offered the 2015, it quickly became a member favorite. We received a tidal wave of emails singing the wine’s praises. One particularly smitten member wrote, “Just beautiful now. What a bargain!”

    It’s sourced predominantly from Meursault, which explains the razor’s edge balance between energy and lushness. And the vintage itself is already considered to be one of the finest in recent memory, which Master of Wine Jancis Robinson called ”seriously delicious.”

    The third-generation estate was founded in 1940 by Julien Coche in Meursault. His son Alain—cousin of Jean-Francois Coche, behind the cult Domaine Coche-Dury—succeeded Julien, expanding the original three-acre vineyard holdings and garnering worldwide renown throughout the 1980s and 90s for his Premier Cru Puligny-Montrachet and Batard-Montrachet Grand Cru. 

    Fabien Coche took up the family business beginning in 1995, and the estate has gone from strong to stronger ever since. Today, over 60 percent of the vines are more than 60 years old. They’re planted in a mixture of limestone and clay soils, which lend this golden beauty its length and mineral complexity.

    As always with the best of Burgundy, however, there’s just not all that much to go around. And at under $30 a bottle—less than last year!—we expect it to vanish quickly.