Chardonnay.
Colour: pale gold colour with a light green tint.
Bouquet: aromas of honey, almond paste and flint.
Palate: frank on the palate with a fairly lively but well-balanced attack. Fruity, honeyed, sweet almond flavours are expressed with great finesse.
Drink with oily fish, poached or simply fried, seafood, risottos containing sea-food or mushrooms and goat cheeses, French Comté and Beaufort cheeses.
Serve at a temperature of 12°C- 14°C. (54-57°F.).
This wine can be consumed now or laid down in a cellar for the next 3 to 8 years.
This is a Macon appellation, a neighbour of the renowned Pouilly-Fuissé in the South of Burgundy. The Saint-Véran appellation occupy slopes forming part of the chain of hills to which the Rock of Solutré belongs. This rocky backbone is made of fossiliferous limestone of the Middle Jurassic. The gentle eastern slopes are composed of marly limestones on which are found the east-facing vineyards of Prissé and Davayé. At Chânes and Prissé, on the left bank of the little river Grosne, the vines grow on fossiliferous limestones, often overlain by a layer of clay-with-flints with « chailles ». The soils, ideally suited to the Chardonnay, produce only white wines.
After manual harvesting, the grapes are moderately pressed. The juice is left to settle, and then temperature-controlled fermentation begins in stainless steel tanks.
During the maturing, the wine is racked to aerate it and to get rid of the deposit.
The 2025 campaign in Burgundy was marked by a water deficit of approximately 30% and an early harvest, which began as early as August 25th in the Côte de Beaune.
Despite more unsettled weather at the start of the picking season, the sanitary state of the grapes is excellent, and they show a beautiful aromatic concentration.
The reds are characterized by gentle extractions and deep color, while the whites combine richness, concentration, and freshness.
A vintage of character and elegance is emerging for both red and white wines.
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