Joseph DROUHIN (Beaune) -- 2018 Part III: White Wines Tasted from Bottle and Cask Sample

My overview of how the 2018 vintage went at Drouhin is here.

I found the whites to include some wines that simply were not very good, a shocking situation for Drouhin, one of the finest and most consistent producers in Burgundy. Perhaps these disappointing wines, which I have not found in well over thirty years of tasting through Drouhin’s wines, are a reflection of the very complicated and fast ripening process at harvest? My notes here are only on the wines that I found to be of sufficiently good quality.

Wines that were in bottle when I tasted them in most cases had been bottled several months before and so should have recovered from any bottle sickness.