Winemaker Notes
This wine is fresh and fruity, with notes of pineapple and honey.
It is a great accompaniment to seafood or on its own as an aperitif.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
This comes from the highest vineyard in the appellation, weirdly enough with the cadastral name La Plaine. Instead, Aurélien calls this cuvée Les Pierres Blanches as the hard white limestone had to be crushed in order to enable planting. The wine spends one year in stainless steel. Light to mid lemon yellow. More chiselled on the nose, taking its time to deliver. Ripe fruits now start to show, a little more precision and nobility.
One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
Inhabiting the best of the upper half of the Mâconnais, Viré-Clessé, created from the delineation of the two top Mâcon Villages, produces lively, charming and full-bodied whites (of Chardonnay). Lemon balm, verbena, white peach, and mint evolve with graceful age to quince jam, spice, pine and brown butter. The aromatic intensity of Viré-Clessé suits itself to herb-laden poultry, as well as sautéed shrimp or vegetables. It is also the perfect partner to Camembert or goat cheese.