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• Practicing organic.
• 100% Chardonnay.
• 35+ year old vines.
• Southeast facing site.
• More limestone...
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Crisp, balanced and delicately floral, Chardonnays from the Macon Villages are often made in the unoaked style and...
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$18.35
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Nose: An attractive and open fruit aroma.
Palate: Well structured in the mouth, a little honey. Good freshness within...
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Elegant and charming with aromas ranging from mineral (silex), to citrus notes (lemon, grapefruit, and pineapple),...
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Nose: Very subtle or even a little discreet. Dried fruit and hazelnut taking over.
Palate: Dominant and topped with a...
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After subtle aromas of lemon, apricot, acacia and honeysuckle, on the palate a St-Véran (always made of Charodnnay)...
![Domaine De Fa [A. & M. Graillot] Saint Veran Les Crais 2021 750ml](https://www.saratogawine.com/files/images/cached_thumbs/7d/7d7d62cc430a66825fde11a369d91435.jpg){kind=small}
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• Certified organic, practicing biodynamic.
• 100% Chardonnay.
• A single site in the village of Leynes.
• At...
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$16.25
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This 100% domaine wine comes from the Macon village of Uchizy. It is fresh and juicy, no-oak Chardonnay, with layers...
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$35.59
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The 2019 Mâcon-Azé offers dried peach, mango and lime scents on the nose, a little simple but pure. The palate is...
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$49.79
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Intense yellow color, lemony nose sustained by white-flesh fruits aromas like peach and pear. The wine is generous...
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Domaine Delaye offers beautiful Chardonnay varietal characteristics of bright citrus framed by a backbone of clean...
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$43.94
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• Certified organic.
• From the village of Vergisson, the heart of Macon’s finest terroir.
• High altitude...
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Made with grapes from 50+ year old vines on clay and limestone soils. Aromas of peach, hazelnut, and honey on the...
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• Certified organic.
• 100% Chardonnay.
• From 0.25 ha vineyard – high altitude and steep.
• 300m...
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Golden yellow in color with a powerful nose dominated by fresh notes of fruit and citrus. Plain and rich palate, and...
Chardonnay Gamay France Burgundy Cote Chalonnaise Maconnais
Of all the white wine grape varietals, surely the one which has spread the furthest and is most widely appreciated is the Chardonnay. This green skinned grape is now grown all over the Old and New Worlds, from New Zealand to the Americas, from England to Chile, and is one of the first varietals people think of when considering white wine grapes. Perhaps this is because of its huge popularity which reached a peak in the 1990s, thanks to new technologies combining with traditional methods to bring the very best features out of the Chardonnay grape, and allow its unique qualities to shine through. Most fine Chardonnay wines use a process known as malolactic fermentation, wherein the malic acids in the grape juice are converted to lactic acids, allowing a creamier, buttery nature to come forward in the wine. No grape varietal is better suited to this process than Chardonnay, which manages to balance these silky, creamy notes with fresh white fruit flavors beautifully.
The French wines of Beaujolais are widely regarded as some of the finest table wines in the world. This is due in part to the qualities of the Gamay grape, from which they are made. Gamay produces beautifully, juicy, rounded and gulpable red wines, usually drank young and full of their natural fruit character. However, it would be a mistake to say that Gamay is limited to easy-drinking, soft wines - it’s a highly flexible and versatile grape, capable of producing aged wines of serious complexity and structure, full of expression and fascinating characteristics.
The majority of Gamay wines from France are labeled under Beaujolais Villages or Beaujolais, and these are the standard table wines we’re used to seeing in French restaurants, at bistros, and at our local wine store. Usually great value for money, these are the light, slightly acidic examples of what the grape can do. Far more interesting are those Gamay wines from the 10 cru villages, just north of Beaujolais, where generations of expertise and a unique soil type made up of granitic schist result in far more unique, complicated wines. The best examples of Gamay feature intense aromatics, all black fruit and forest fare, and are worth cellaring for a few years.
Year in, year out, France enjoys its prestigious reputation as the producer of the finest wines in the world. With a wine making history which spans several thousand years and owes its expertise to the Romans, it comes as little surprise that this most highly esteemed of the Old World wine countries continues to impress and enchant both novices and experts to this day. Despite the rise in quality of wines from neighboring European countries, not to mention the New World, the French wine industry continues to boom, with up to eight billion bottles being produced in recent years. However, France prides itself on always putting quality before quantity, and the wide range in fine produce is a testament to the dedication and knowledge of the wineries across the country. Indeed, from rich and complex reds to light and aromatic white wines, French wines are as varied and interesting as they are enjoyable to drink, making this country a firm favorite for wine lovers across the globe.
The region of Burgundy has become synonymous with high quality red wines, but in actual fact the region consistently produces a wide variety of fine wines of many different styles, rigorously protected by French wine laws designed to keep reputations and quality at a very high level. The region benefits greatly from a warm and sunny summer climate, which, coupled with the excellent quality soils which typify the region, and centuries of experience and expertise, has led to the region being known all over the world for the excellence of its produce. The majority of grapevines grown here are of the Pinot Noir varietal, which has helped Burgundy become known as the definitive region for elegant and smooth red wines, but Chardonnay grapes and many others are also grown in abundance and used to make both still and sparkling wines.