Winemaker Notes
The 2017 Les Tourelles de la Crée, Montagny Premier Cru Chardonnay is fresh and youthful with expressive notes of melon, white flowers, and linen. The palate is electric with layers of stone fruit and white peach. The mouthwatering mineral-driven finish is long and persistent. A beautiful Premier Cru Chardonnay from the Côte Chalonnaise region of Burgundy!
Professional Ratings
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: The 2017 Château de la Crée Les Tourelles Montagny Premier Cru is lively, bright, and satisfying. TASTING NOTES: This wine drinks pleasingly well. Enjoy its complex aromas and flavors of dried earth, savory spice, and ripe stone fruit with pan-fried Dover sole with capers and Meyer lemon accents. (Tasted: April 28, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
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.
One of the top appellations for white Burgundy from the Cote Chalonnaise, Montagny is comprised of large number of Premiers Crus vineyards. Its wines (made of Chardonnay) tend to have a finesse and body not found elsewhere in the Cote Chalonnaise.