Marks and Spencers strikes again with the latest in the scab series.
This time we have a St Romain, Les Senteurs from the ever increasing portfolio of Nuits-Saint-Georges based negotiant-winemaker Nicolas Potel. Bettane and Desseauve give a figure of 450,000 bottles a year production for Monsieur Potel, making him a sizeable player on the modern Burgundian scene.
Non-freaks may not know that St Romain is a small village in the Cote de Beaune in Burgundy, located to the west of Auxey-Duresses. The vines are located at 300-400 m above sea level, higher than usual in the Cotes d'Or. As a result St Romain has a cooler climate than its illustrious neighbours of Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet, and fares best in very hot vintages such as 2003, where these better positioned areas get too fat and ripe.
2007 was not such a vintage, as M&S's St Romain definitely demonstrates. The wine has high acidity- incisively described on the back label as whitecurrant, a smart descriptor for non-citrus type acidity. Yet there is more there too, some cream, a little hazelnut as well. This was very good with roast chicken yesterday and a sweet bargain at 13.45 a bottle, down from 16.99. It was also good with some 14 month Comte. As always the pricing in Northern Ireland will make you cry, a little over 8 stg each if bought by six! Recommended as good but not incredible white burgundy, but a give away at less than 14 snots.
Funnily the back label also suggests serving it with barbequed turbot. Who is the millionaire who barbeques turbot, and wouldn't they drink Le Montrachet instead of bargain bin ?
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