Prunier Bonheur

Auxey Duresses, Blanc, Les Crais, 2022

Name: Auxey Duresses, Blanc, Les Crais
Brand: Prunier Bonheur
Price: 200.74 GBP

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2022
6x75cl
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£200.74
2022
6x75cl
DP
£200.74

Justerini & Brooks Tasting note

Extremely chalky and fresh on the nose, with spicy smoky stony notes that slowly open to reveal layers of tightly wound fruit. Demure and yet intense with it, this is a slow build bottle that is all about poise, drive, cool nuts, smoky chalk and layered length. There are definite shades of the wines from more famous neighbouring village here. An excellent and singular Auxey Duresses vineyard that sits to West of the village, on the way to St Romain. Despite facing due South, it sits in a cold combe that makes for a terroir that is almost two degrees colder than the village. The 50-60-year-old vines sit on very chalk soils, thus the name Les Crais.

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Provenance in fine wine

When it comes to purchasing wine, provenance is of upmost importance. A wine’s history – where it’s sourced from and how it’s been stored – can have an enormous influence on the eventual enjoyment it provides. At Justerini & Brooks, we can trace nearly every case back to the domaine, estate or Château it originally came from; we ship from over 200 wine producers throughout the world.

Wines not bought directly from the vineyard are either sourced from trusted suppliers, with whom we share the same philosophy and rigour in buying, or from our own network of Cellarers customers. These customers’ wines are stored in optimal conditions in Octavian Corsham and, in the vast majority of cases, have been stored by us since the wine was first shipped. We do not purchase wine from auctions.

We feel it is equally important to for our customers that the case they buy and leave in storage with us is exactly the same case they subsequently have delivered. This may sound obvious and straightforward, yet we are one of very few merchants to have taken measures to ensure this.

We have created a system where every case is independent, thereby ensuring a trail of ownership and peace of mind for every customer.

The Journey

Justerinis ensures that every case of wine stored with Cellarers (Wines) Ltd has a unique identifier and customer’s name, almost unheard of in the industry as it is expensive to administer. These details are printed and placed on every case which is logged and recorded under your account name and kept in the world’s most renowned storage facility, Octavian Corsham.

This information is sent from our systems to the warehouse every day to ensure the trail of ownership is verified and upheld.

While customer reserves are stored in Corsham, our physical stocks are kept in Hoddesdon, further providing a geographical separation between customers’ wines with Cellarers and Justerinis’ own stock.

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Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is a legally separate limited company from Justerini & Brooks which currently holds approximately £450 million worth of customer reserves. It is fully insured to catastrophic loss. Many merchants will state that wine in their care is fully insured, but in reality this is on an individual case basis with insufficient cover for total loss as this is prohibitively expensive. The cover provided by Octavian and Justerini & Brooks is unmatched.

Cellarers (Wines) Ltd is audited by PwC every year.

Critic Reviews

90/100

Neal Martin,

Vinous

The 2022 Auxey-Duresses Blanc Les Crais has a tightly wound nose, but I appreciate the tension in this white Auxey—a tad more mineralité than its peers. The palate is well balanced with orange pith and light almond notes. There is good substance here and satisfying tension on the finish. This is going to be difficult to resist in its youth. Tasted at merchants' 2022 Burgundy tastings in London.

drinking window 2025 - 2034

date of review 01/2024

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This product may contain sulphites. Full allergen information is available upon request, please call our Customer Relations Team on +44 (0)20 7484 6430.