100% 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.
From November 2021 to January 2022, there was abundant rain, followed by cool months in February and March, which delayed budding and prevented frost. May was particularly warm, favouring good flowering, but June was marked by hot mornings and violent thunderstorms in the afternoon. In July, intense heat led to water stress, slowing down the ripening of the vines, depending on the plot.
Work in the vines influenced the results, with some plots producing an excellent vintage, while others suffered from dehydration. Most of the harvest began at the beginning of September, with beneficial rain falling at the end of the day or at night, allowing the grapes to offer a good balance between sugar content and acidity.
Harvesting finished in mid-September, with production close to normal despite variable volumes. The 2022 wines have notes of ripe fruit, while retaining their freshness. They are generous and well-balanced.
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