2020 Doyard Coteaux Champenois Ay Rouge
The Wine Advocate
RP 92
Reviewed by: William Kelley
Release Price: NA
Drink Date: 2023 - 2032
Guillaume Doyard has been working hard on his still wines for several years now, and with the 2020 Coteaux Champenois Ay Rouge he is really emerging as a very serious player in this category. Produced from the lieu-dit Bonottes in Ay (Doyard has also planted some Burgundian massal selections in his home village of Vertus, so watch this space), it's a sensual, supple, medium-bodied red evocative of cherries, sweet red berries, petals and spices. The wine's filigree texture and mineral finish mark it out as distinctively Champenois, even if the wine's elevage and depth of fruit clearly nod to the Cote d'Or.
Published: Dec 15, 2023