Visit to Domaine Cathiard – tasting the 2018s from cask

I’m back at Domaine Cathiard after missing the 2017s last winter. And YES, it is good to be back.

Cathiard has certainly taken its place in the Vosne hierarchy as a regular, dependable producer of hedonistic and very enjoyable wines. These are great wines.

So let’s get thrilled …

Photo: Sebastien Cathiard, November 2019

Impression and notes from tasting the 2018s

The 2018s from Cathiard continue the tendency of ever more detailed and transparent wines with less oak and a more pure, racy fruit expression. Even in an intense and generous vintage like 2018, Sebastien Cathiard has found refinement and airiness.

The 2018s are rich and velvety with true generosity, but they maintain the refined, detailed expression found in previous years.

As with all other 2018s, the wines reveal that this is indeed a generous year. But this characteristic has expressed itself differently chez Cathiard: some wines carry the generosity with greater ease and delicacy.

The best wines offer lovely, juicy freshness to balance the generous fruit. They are vibrant and charming with delightful tension between velvety fruit and some fresher, red notes of pomegranate and redcurrant.

Domaine Cathiard Côteaux Bourguignon 2018

The Côteaux Bourguignon is vivid and on the generous side – rather dense, but with good energy. Around 40% gamay is beautifully revealed in this wine – gamay provides fine vivacity in years like 2018. It is indeed different, yet very much Cathiard. Truly an enjoyable glass with its expressive fruitiness.

(Drink from 2020) – Good (85 – 87p) – Tasted 12/11/2019 – Cask – ?

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Domaine Cathiard Bourgogne Pinot Noir 2018

Next up the Bourgogne Pinot Noir, a lovely generic – but generous – Burgundy. The 2018 edition is rather full-bodied for this level, with quite a vinous character. The bouquet offers juicy red and dark berry fruit with a hint of earthy minerality. On the palate, generous fruit – fine freshness for the vintage – with excellent depth and length for a Bourgogne Rouge. Better than the Côteaux Bourguignon, but perhaps less vivacious.

(Drink from 2020) – Good+ (87 – 88p) – Tasted 12/11/2019 – Cask

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Tasting Notes for this producer

• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee Aux Malconsorts 2012 January 7, 2019
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne Aux Malconsorts 2011 July 7, 2018
• Domaine Cathiard, Romanee Saint-Vivant 2014 March 7, 2016
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee Aux Malconsorts 2014 March 7, 2016
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee les Suchots 2014 March 7, 2016
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee En Orveaux 2014 March 7, 2016
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee Aux Reignots 2014 March 7, 2016
• Domaine Cathiard, Nuits-Saint-Georges Aux Murgers 2014 March 7, 2016
• Domaine Cathiard, Nuits-Saint-Georges Aux Thorey 2014 March 7, 2016
• Domaine Cathiard, Chambolle-Musigny Clos de l’Orme 2014 March 7, 2016
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee 2014 March 7, 2016
• Domaine Cathiard, Bourgogne Rouge 2014 March 7, 2016
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee Aux Malconsorts 2013 December 13, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee En Orveaux 2013 April 3, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee Aux Malconsorts 2013 April 3, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Romanee Saint-Vivant 2013 April 3, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee les Suchots 2013 April 3, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee Aux Reignots 2013 April 3, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Nuits-Saint-Georges Aux Murgers 2013 April 3, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Nuits-Saint-Georges Aux Thorey 2013 April 3, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Chambolle-Musigny Clos de l’Orme 2013 April 3, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee 2013 April 3, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Bourgogne Rouge 2013 April 3, 2015
• Domaine Cathiard, Nuits-Saint-Georges 2011 December 25, 2014
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee Aux Reignots 2012 December 20, 2014
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee Les Suchots 2004 December 16, 2014
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne Aux Malconsorts 2011 July 7, 2014
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee 2012 May 23, 2014
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne-Romanee Aux Reignots 2012 May 20, 2014
• Domaine Cathiard, Vosne Aux Malconsorts 2012 May 17, 2014

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