Madame Veuve Point Bourgogne Chardonnay 2016

Adorned with a light golden appearance with green highlights, this Burgundy Chardonnay seduces with its fresh nose with flinty aromas, tones of white flowers (hawthorn, acacia) and toast. An aromatic wine unfolds on the palate, straightforward and full. Its liveliness enables it to be appreciated starting with the aperitif. Its aromatic range plays well in complicity with fish and seafood. It also sits well with onion tarts as well as a variety of cheeses like Brie, Vacherin, Saint-Nectaire, Mont-d’or, or even Beaufort.

Made of Chardonnay, white Burgundy highlights this vintage which has become universal and which has its perfect cradle and expression here. Instituted in 1937, the Burgundy Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée extends to the departments of the Yonne, the Côte-d’Or and the Saône-et-Loire. It is a beginner wine, opening with the Villages AOC, the Premiers Crus and the Grands Crus. Before this multitude of terroirs, the expressions of Chardonnay vary according to the provenance of the bottle, the age of the vine and the vintage. White Burgundy most often comes from the vines of Piedmont. It lands are diverse depending on the geographic areas. Marls and limestone marls, whitish or light grey soils, deep soil with few stones in the Côte-d’Or. The Yonne and the Côte-d’Or equally possess vineyards of hills marrying limestone slopes, sometimes chalky (Tonnerrois) or Kimmeridgian (Chablisien, Auxerrois). The faulty relief of the the Chalonnais and Mâconnais areas yields soils in which limestone, clay and marl are mixed, with granitic nuances south of the Saône-et-Loire.