The 2017 Bourgogne Blanc opens in the glass with a pretty and youthfully expressive bouquet of crisp green orchard fruit, white flowers and hazelnuts. On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, satiny and incisive, with a bright spine of acidity that structures the wine's generous core of fruit. Raphaël Coche opted to supplement grapes from the domaine's holdings with some purchased fruit this year, and the resulting wine is very fine indeed.

Full bottle 1,350 g. Bright golden. Reticent nose at first although on the palate, it’s much more luscious than many Coche Bourgogne Blancs! Satin-textured and savoury. Just what you want from a white burgundy. The Meursault 2017 from the Coches would cost twice as much but would it deliver twice as much pleasure? Firm and long and no hurry to drink up. This bottle is much more open than the one tasted in May 2025. (JR)

2017 had very short skin-contact time, six hours, because not perfectly ripe. They don’t work with perfectly clear juice. Butterscotchy nose. Inbuilt bitterness and deep-rooted into the palate. Muscle. The structure seems to come more from smoke and bitterness, and a citric stoniness, than from acidity. Really, really grippy finish. Determined. Salty and tight but not aggressive. Gets more smoky and sweet on the nose in glass. This tastes pretty superior for a bourgogne Chardonnay. (TC)