We used to see Faiveley's Mercurey Domaine de la Croix Jacquelet 2002 here, but I noticed today after I thought I had bought a bottle, that it has changed to simply Mercurey. The price is still the same, though. Alko ripping us off again, I see, and not even bothering to inform us on their website that it is a totally new product, just changing it from the Jacquelet into a basic village red without informing us. Or is it possible that the village wine and Croix Jacquelet are in fact the same wine?
I was still interested in it because I like Mercurey and Faiveley. The scent is absolutely lovely: vegetal but of arrestingly pure Pinosity. Very upright structure, lingonberries/bright and tart red fruit, very refreshing and with a pot of coq au vin very moreish indeed for those of us with perverse tastes. I like this very much.
So what does Faiveley do in Mercurey? I didn't see a basic or a Croix Jacquelet on their website, oddly enough. So with one Burgundy expert saying that the Jacquelet has always been the basic Mercurey (ergo this bottle and CJ would be the same), and another saying that Mauvarennes was the cheapest, what is going on with Faiveley's Mercureys? Perhaps I shouldn't worry too much since the wine was just wonderful to my tastes, but the geek in me wants to know.