Winemaker Notes
Pair with asparagus, rabbit galantine, trout with almonds, and sheeps cheese.
Professional Ratings
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James Suckling
This is very chalk and salty with minerality and ripe fruit at the same time. Plenty of lemon and green pineapple character. Medium to full body and a fresh finish.
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Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
COMMENTARY: Montagny has always been my favorite "value" white Burgundy appellation. The 2016 Louis Latour Montagny is a first-rate effort. TASTING NOTES: This wine is fresh, yet complex. Its aromas and flavors of ripe fruit, savory spices, and earth should pair it beautifully with an oven-roast chicken. (Tasted: October 17, 2018, San Francisco, CA)
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Wine Spectator
A bright vein of acidity weaves throughout this white, sharpening the apple, white peach and light oyster shell flavors. Consistent from start to finish. Drink now through 2021.
Maison Louis Latour is one of the most highly-respected négociant-éléveurs in Burgundy. Maison Louis Latour is the producer of some of the finest Burgundian wines but has also pioneered the production of fine wines from outside Burgundy's confines. These wines from the Ardèche and the Côteaux de Verdon are slowly gaining esteem for their unmatchable quality outside Burgundy.
All the grapes from the vineyards owned by the Latour family are vinified and aged in the attractive cuverie of Chateau Corton Grancey in Aloxe-Corton. The winery was the first purpose-built cuverie in France and remains the oldest still functioning. A unique railway system with elevators allows the entire wine-making process to be achieved by the use of gravity. This eliminates the threat of oxidation from unnecessary pumping of the must. Since 1985, Louis Latour has been selling the wines of its own vineyards under the name Domaine Louis Latour.
Louis Latour has been a leader in environmentally responsible winemaking for over 15 years. Louis Latour has had ISO 14001 accreditation for Environmental Management Systems since 2003 and has been part of the European association FARRE since 1998- a group of like-minded companies who seek to develop and promote sustainable methods of agriculture.
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.