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CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 2021

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2023

Grape variety

100% Chardonnay.

Tasting notes

Colour: Beautiful pale gold, limpid and shiny with emerald reflections.
Nose: The nose is fine, elegant, refined, floral (white flowers) and fruity (pear) with some notes of fresh almonds and hazelnuts.
Palate: The palate is pure, with acidity well integrated and a nice roundness. The flavours are both floral and fruity, and delicately woody. This wine will know how to assert itself with age. Very promising!

Wine and food pairing

This wine is perfect served with poached turbot and beurre blanc, Bresse chicken with a cream sauce, eel, smoked salmon, trout with almonds, shellfish and veal sweetbreads. It is also an ideal match for Japanese mochi. Try it with foie gras or, for an original flavour combination, duck à l’orange.

Serving temperature

Serve ideally at a temperature of around 14°C. (55°F.).

Ageing potential

This great white Burgundy can be kept in the cellar up to 10 years.

Origin

The prestigious village of Chassagne-Montrachet is the southernmost village in the Côte de Beaune and the great white wines of Burgundy. This appellation is bordered to the south by Santenay and to the north by Puligny-Montrachet, producing both white and red wines.

Chassagne-Montrachet shares the Montrachet appellation, the Prince of white crus, with Puligny-Montrachet. An average of 8,000 hectolitres of Chardonnay is harvested every year.

Alternating calcareous, pebbly, marly and sandy soils. South-east facing, on gentle slopes, at an altitude between 220 and 330m.

Vinification and maturing

Vintage : 2021

Nature certainly set a challenge for the winegrower and the winemaker with this vintage.

It began with very warm temperatures at the end of February which led to an early bud break.

The historic frost in April then destroyed young shoots that had emerged too early, significantly affecting the future harvest. Changing weather continued to characterize the vintage through to the harvests.

There were spells of rain from May to mid-August, obliging winegrowers to be constantly on the alert. The only periods of relative calm were during flowering, which took place in good conditions for the formation of the future fruit, and the véraison (colour change), which benefited from the return of the sun from mid-August.

The vagaries of the weather contributed to the development of outbreaks of disease, which were contained thanks to the tireless efforts of our winegrowers. In spite of this, considerable sacrifices had to be made to ensure a high level of quality, and rigorous sorting of the fruit in the vineyard and on arrival at the winery was necessary.

This vintage also required a major technical effort. The vinifications had to be carried out with meticulous attention and precision with a particular care over the extraction of colouring matter, the balance of the structure and the aromatic expression of the red wines, and of the freshness, balance of acidity and aromatic potential of the white wines.