BOURGOGNE
CHARDONNAY 2021
BOURGOGNE
CHARDONNAY 2021
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Grape variety
The white Burgundie's king variety offers various sensations depending from the origin, the vintage or the vines age.
Tasting notes
Nose: very expressive with aromas of flowers and honey.
Palate: frank attack, good acidity, with acacia and lightly canded fruits aromas enhanced by a good length in the mouth.
Wine and food pairing
Serving temperature
Ageing potential
Origin
The appellation area spreads across 384 villages of the Yonne, Côte d’Or, Saône-et-Loire, and Rhône departments.
Starting in the North, from the region of Chablis and Auxerre, to the South in the region of Macon, and passing through the Côte d’Or and the Côte Chalonnaise, the Bourgogne wines stem from very diverse terroirs.
This wine mostly comes from the foothills vineyards. The relief shape from the Côte Chalonnaise and the Mâconnais regions gives soils blended with lime, clay and marl, with granitic nuances at the very South of the Saône-et-Loire department.
Vinification and maturing
Fermentation in stainless-steel vats at controlled temperature (between 18 and 20°C) to preserve the fruit. Bottling after 6 months aging on lees, including a part in oak barrels (with 15% new oak).
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.
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