Winemaker Notes
This is Maison Matisco’s star wine, with a beautiful pale yellow color and hints of white gold. In the nose, it offers subtle orchard fruit aromas (peach, pear), as well as exotic fruit, wildflowers and a touch of hazelnut. The acidity and the rich texture work together exceptionally well, providing a harmonious, fresh and generous structure.
Thanks to those fruity and floral notes, this Saint-Véran will be phenomenal with a seafood platter, monkfish cheeks with saffron, seared scallops or even grilled veal chops.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
This wine’s warm apple flavors point up its mineral acidity, finishing clean, with a soft landing. The flavors are fresh and saturated enough to stand up to an herb-roasted chicken or braised rabbit.
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Wine Spectator
Inviting and open-textured, delivering peach, apple, lemon cake and spice aromas and flavors, offset nicely by lively acidity, keeping this defined and long. Drink now through 2021.
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.
Occupying vineyards to the west and south of the village of Mâcon, the appellation of St-Véran interweaves with Pouilly-Fuissé, overlapping both the Mâconnais and Beaujolais. St-Véran includes a lot of what was once sold as Beaujolais Blanc. Grown on limestone, St-Véran whites' ageability and power fall somewhere in between the wines of Mâcon-Villages and Pouilly-Fuissé.
After subtle aromas of lemon, apricot, acacia and honeysuckle, on the palate a St-Véran (always made of Chardonnay) shows fresh focus and clarity while exhibiting roundness and harmonious balance. A great St-Véran will express notes of almond, hazelnut, cinnamon, butter or toast and sometimes an exotic twist of orange peel. Seafood risotto or pasta with mushrooms are perfect pairings.