Winemaker Notes
The nose is fresh with notes of nuts, honey and citrus fruits. Medium body on the palate with delicate fruit flavors and a slightly spicy finish.
Pair this medium-bodied wine with dishes such butter poached fish or crab. Highlight the rich minerality with ingredients such as mushrooms or cauliflower.
Vegan-Friendly
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
Alluring nose, marrying ripe orchard fruit, apple blossom and wet stone. In the mouth, fleshy peach, pear, yellow apple sprinkled with candied lemon peel and flaked blanched almonds. Weighty and wide on the mid palate but focused and lean on the long finish.
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James Suckling
An easygoing, soft and rounded chardonnay that’s medium-bodied, full of ripe peaches and golden apples with hints of butter and almonds.
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.
Crisp, balanced and delicately floral, Chardonnays from the Macon Villages are often made in the unoaked style and offer a magnificent sampling of what white Burgundy has to offer—without years of waiting and high dollar price tags.
Within the greater Mâconnais, the Macon Villages wines are those within a few defined and optimally situated villages, either noted by the name Mâcon-Villages or as Mâcon followed by the name of the particular village, for example Viré, Lugny, Azé, Bray or Burgy.
Commonly vinified in stainless steel or glass-lined concrete vats, these are mostly intended for consumption within a year or two of the vintage, though a few serious Mâconnais producers have turned their focus to smaller yields and barrel fermentation and maturation. Regardless, you can count on Macon Villages whites to be fresh and fruity with citrus and melon flavors, and aromas of white roses, honeysuckle, lemon-grass or fennel.
This is a great region to explore if you already like California, Australian or Chilean Chardonnay.