Viré-Clessé Vieilles Vignes, Dom. Pascal Bonhomme - 2022

Name: Viré-Clessé Vieilles Vignes, Dom. Pascal Bonhomme
Brand: Dom. Pascal Bonhomme
SKU: 46013
Price: 28.96 USD
Availability: InStock

Item # 46013 750 mL

A gorgeous white Burgundy that is rich and luscious on the palate. The vines are 65 years old and the wine was aged in older barrels. Delicious with a lobster ravioli in a brown butter sauce.

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Color

White

Vintage

2022

Country

France

Region

Burgundy

Sub-Region

Mâconnais

Appellation/Village

Viré-Clessé

Producer

Dom. Pascal Bonhomme

Grape Variety

Chardonnay

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Staff Pick Notes

In the sister towns of Viré and Clessé located in Southern Burgundy, in the heart of the Mâconnais region. Pascal Bonhomme worked for more than a decade on a wine-growing estate in the region before deciding to create his very own estate in 2001. On a small enclave of just 6 hectare / 15 acres Pascal manages the estate completely by hand and meticulously vinifies all of the fruit. The parcel of vines are around 60 years old for this Vieilles Vignes / 'Old Vine' selection. With a blend of stainless steel vats and 20% oak barrels this is a wine of character and complexity rarely seen in the Mâcon. Building upon a fresh apple and pear fruit profile, this expression heads into rich notes of toasted cedar and subtle croissants and pasty crust hints with great ease.

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Glossary

Burgundy

The range of wine styles offered in Burgundy rivals that of any other region. In Chablis, Chardonnay is left unoaked to produce lean, crisp, steely wines with incredible acidity - a far cry from the vanilla-oak bombs that so many consumers associate with this grape. Fans of rich, unctuous, and well-oaked Chardonnay will enjoy Chassagne-Montrachet, whose age-worthy offerings offer all the fatness of a California wine, yet retain a very Burgundian, mineral-driven core and great acidity....

Chardonnay

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking world. It is a flexible, eager-to-please grape, responding well to just about anything a winemaker...