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CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 2021

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2021

Grape variety

100% Chardonnay.

Tasting notes

Colour: Elegant pale gold with emerald tints.

Nose: A fine bouquet, aromatic, fruity and flowery (green apples, almonds and white flowers).

Palate: Well-balanced, supple and long. The honeyed note is particularly interesting in the context of maturing in new casks, and is in perfect harmony with the wine's full-bodied character. A remarkable length. This is undoubtedly one of the world's truly greatest white wines.

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.

History

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.

Vinification and maturing

The grapes come from 2 parcels and are harvested by hand and after pressing the grapes, a cold settling of 48 hours at 8°C. (46°F.) is made. Then the juice was put in 30 % new oak barrels, 40 % one year old barrels and 30 % two year old barrels for both fermentation alcoholic and malolactic and aged 12 months without stirring the lees.

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.