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CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 2024

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2024

Grape variety

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

The grapes are hand harvested, sorted and pressed. A cold settling for 48 hours at 8°C. (41°F.) has been realised. Then the juice was put into new oak barrels for 30%, one-year-old barrels for 40% and two-year-old barrels for 30% for both alcoholic and malolactic fermentations and aged for 12 months without stirring the lees.

Vintage : 2024

One year follows another and no two are alike. After a generous and fairly mild 2023 vintage, 2024 was long, temperamental and rainy for our vineyard team. Rain was an integral part of their daily routine from autumn 2023 and throughout the vegetative growth of the vines. It took a lot of effort to contain mildew and weeds in the plots. Flowering went slowly but smoothly in the 1st half of June.

Until mid-June, temperatures fluctuated between normal and cool, with frost in some areas in April. It was only when summer came around that we were able to enjoy seasonal, even warm, temperatures.

In terms of Burgundy as a whole, the Côte Chalonnaise came out on top in terms of both the quantity and quality of the grapes harvested. Even if all these climatic hazards had an impact on the yield, we harvested grapes with very well-balanced ripeness and airy bunches. After meticulous sorting and fine vinification work, we're delighted with the quality of our wines. The whites are well-balanced, fresh and flavoursome. The reds are straightforward, fruity and elegant.