Winemaker Notes
Thr Mercurey Blanc Les Caraby has a spicy, floral and mineral character.
Pair this wine with grilled fish or fish in sauce, cooked seafood, Asian cuisine, and hard cheeses.
Professional Ratings
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Decanter
The toasty and slightly salty and smoky nose leads onto a fresh, energetic and concentrated palate of cooked lemon and lime, toast and cream: a nice contrast to the salinity, like a margarita. The oak is integrated with a floral note on the long, satisfying finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
Tucked into the hillside, this sheltered vineyard that also produces red wines can produce ripe bottlings like this one. With generous white fruits, good acidity and touches of wood from the barrel aging, it will develop well.
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.
Beloved for its deep and flavorful reds made of Pinot Noir, Mercurey is the largest and most important village in the Côte Chalonnaise of Burgundy with most of its vineyards tucked away in hillsides or stretched along the aptly-named “Golden Valley.” This valley, sheltered from the moist and cool air that funnels along at lower elevations, is ideal for ripening Pinot noir.
Mercurey follows strict yield laws, similar to those at the Côte d’Or village level, promoting the development of deep, full, concentrated and age-worthy Pinot noirs. In their youth, a chewy and rich structure supports flavors of ripe strawberry, raspberry and cherry. Age brings notes of underbrush, tobacco and cocoa.
While Pinot Noir claims the majority of Mercurey vineyard acreage, Chardonnay does grow here and produces uniqely floral and spicey scented white wines.