Les Parcellaires Bourgogne Chardonnay 2022 (750ml) Lombardy

Les Parcellaires Bourgogne Chardonnay 2022 (750ml) LombardyAppearance : Nice gold robe with green tints, limpid and brilliant. Bouquet : Pleasant aromas of fresh fruits, acacia flowers, linden tree, highlighted by mineral and toasted notes. In the mouth: Clean attack in mouth, rich and fat, complex with a lot of finesse, nice finish on candied fruits and roasted flavours.

"Smoky wine with seaweed

which produces low yields and incredibly mineralGrape variety100% ChardonnayTerroir/exposureKimmeridgian soilSoutheastern exposureVillage of MillyVine age30 yearsPlanting density5

Everything depended on good ripening conditions in the month of October since bloom was much later

each year from 1945

Tasted at Decanter Fine Wine Encounter 2015

but it's been mostly absorbed into the wine

The 2020 Château Tour Saint Christophe showed spectacularly well

100% Frappato ("nerocapitano" is a local name for this native red grape varietal)

Macán is a modern and very personal take on the premium quality and highly expressive wines of the DOCa Rioja

Distinctively spicy

Made from the single vineyard in Verzy of it's name

The Régnié village is dominated by pink granite soils and is located northwest of Morgon which perhaps explains the richer tannin although this wine is still very much Gamay in its accessibility