Claire Naudin’s Hautes Cotes de Nuits 2012 – Myosotis Arvensis

Myosotis Arvensis is the Greek name of the lovely blue flower ‘forget me not’, an appropriate name for a wine we won’t forget for a while! As you can see from my previous post, we are big fans of Claire’s wine.  I like her natural style of wine making, which is all about the terroir and grape.  One again the fruit is to the fore here and you get a real sense of cherries and slightly smoked vanilla flavours. The relatively low alcohol percentage of 12.5%, means that you can enjoy drinking the wine with food, rather than becoming so drunk that you forget what you are drinking really quickly!  We tried it with a lovely apricot and pork pate on walnut bread and it complemented the flavours really well.

Hautes Cotes de Nuits isn’t the sexiest part of Burgundy and is often overlooked as it contains no premier crus.  But you overlook this AOC at your peril as the wines can offer an easy drinking taste of the Côte d’Or at a decent price. Magny-Les-Villers (where Naudin is based) is a pretty village and a good place from which to explore the appellation.

Just a few practical things – W e purchased this wine from http://www.mesbourgognes-beaune.com/

It cost us around 25 euros.