Domaine Charles Audoin, Marsannay, Les Favières 2017

“The 2017 Marsannay Les Favières is showing superbly in bottle, exhibiting aromas of raspberries and cassis mingled with raw cocoa, forest floor, peonies and blood orange. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with chalky structuring tannins and lively acids. This is, as so often, the finest long-haul proposition in the Audoin portfolio.”-92+WA, 2024-2044

Cyril Audoin is part of the next generation from renowned winemaking families, and his energetic, outgoing personality is a refreshing counterpoint to wines that are among the most serious in their appellation. Cyril’s father, Charles, was a visionary in the Burgundy region, as he’d already selected and vinified the best parcels in the 1970s, before Marsannay was even an appellation. He and his wife, Marie-Françoise, an oenologist, began their domaine in Marsannay-la-Cote, in 1972.

Cyril is the fifth generation to join the family business. He continues his parents’ commitment to producing fine red, white and rosé Marsannays, primarily from single vineyards, that are well-structured and wonderfully mineral.