2010 Joseph Drouhin Santenay

I keep digging into the Burgundy wines from 2009 and 2010. This time, I found a cheap bottle of 2010 Pinot at my local store from Joseph Drouhin. Joseph Drouhin is one of the largest producers of red wine in Burgundy. The estate has a total of 73 hectares of vineyards. The breakdown is as follows:

• Chablis: 38 hectares
• Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune: 32 hectares
• Côte Chalonnaise: 3 hactares

For some of their village and regional wines, Drouhin buys grapes from other producers.

Tasting note on the 2010 Joseph Drouhin Santenay

Some ripe plum and cardboard on the nose. The first attack brings some sour raspberries and cherries. Ripe fruit, some minerality and iron feel. Plum and cherries on the finnish. There is also some unbalanced sourness and greeness on the back end.  
It is not a bad wine, it's just not very exciting. The mid palate is hollow, the fruit is a bit too ripe for me and their isn't much complexity to talk about. The wine though is very servicable, has some of the Pinot characteristics and has a nice acidity. A decent weekday wine.
86 points