Chassagne-Montrachet red 2023 - Vieilles Vignes
- Red
- 75 cl
Chassagne Montrachet red 2023, from the Vincent and Sophie Morey estate
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Chassagne-Montrachet red 2023 - Vieilles Vignes
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Complex
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Powerful
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Mineral
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Fruity
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Woody
Chassagne-Montrachet Red 2023 - Old Vines - Domaine Morey
It is a round, fat, powerful and opulent wine, unctuous and with an aromatic complexity that is difficult to match! The pleasure is also prolonged thanks to a very nice length in the mouth.
The quality of the barrel ageing is particularly remarkable. It brings structure and empyreumatic aromas without distorting the wine.
A wine to keep for up to 8 years.
Food and wine pairings:
White meats, veal in sauce.
Serving temperature: 12 to 14 °
Map of the Chassagne-Montrachet appellation :
food pairing
Full, round Burgundy red wine: pasta and risotto, grilled or roasted pork, roasted veal, sauce or pan-fried, Lamb, poultry, rabbit, roast beef, game birds, liver, kidneys in sauce, skewers, kebab, woks, camembert, brie
features
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Appellation
Village -
Type of Wine
Still -
Wine Making
Oak casks -
Grape Variety
Pinot Noir -
Harvest
Manual -
Burgundy Region
Côte de Beaune -
Vintage
2023 -
Service
14 to 16 degrees -
Custody potential
2029 -
Degree of alcohol
13°
appellation
Chassagne Montrachet
Wine Characteristics
White: this wine is the Chardonnay grape dressed in glittering gold! It boasts firm coloration with green highlights. Aromas of mayflower, acacia, and honeysuckle blend with verbena and hazelnut and in some cases toast or fresh butter. This wine boasts a profound minerality (flint). Age brings in notes of honey or ripe pear. Rounded and often opulent, its attack is instantaneous. On the palate, fleshiness is matched by mellowness, and both are equally persistent.
Red: brilliant, with purplish highlights – this wine is a well-coloured Pinot Noir. Aromas of Morello cherry and cherry-pit, wild strawberry, gooseberry, and raspberry are commonly present. Notes of animal and spice complete the bouquet. In the mouth, this wine has real substance. Its delicious fleshiness partly conceals tannins which, though somewhat austere in youth, give way with maturity to a concentrated and taste-filled structure, intriguing in its complexity.
Wine Steward’s Tip
White: its opulence and power make it an ideal partner for delicate fine white meats such as poultry or veal in sauce. Fish, either in well-spiced couscous or in Asian dishes such as curries or stir-fries, are also well-suited. Salmon, in itself highly aromatic, harmonizes particularly well. The Premiers Crus appellations will readily complement crawfish, lobster, or even foie gras.
Serving temperature: 12 to 14°C.
Red: powerful and tannic, it flatters good quality meats such as grilled or roast lamb, coating their fibres in the mouth. Its aromatic power balances that of grilled pork and of curried or tandoori-style poultry. The Premiers Crus demand, at the very least, feathered game.
Serving temperature: 14 to 16°C.
Situation
In the southern part of the Côte de Beaune Chassagne-Montrachet shares with Puligny the uncontested title of the prince of the world’s dry white wines: the divine Montrachet (pronounced “Monrachay”). This fine, broad hillside brings out the very highest expression of the two Burgundian grapes - the Pinot Noir and the Chardonnay, which grow here side-by side - such is the complexity of the region’s soils! Extensive marble quarries, which form a kind of cliff face, were the source of the pink and beige flagstones which went into the building of the Trocadero in Paris and more recently the Louvre Pyramid. The Chassagne- Montrachet AOC dates from 1937. It includes some plots in the neighbouring village of Remigny which share the same soil conditions.
Terroirs
At altitudes between 220 and 325 metres, the succession of rocks from the top down is first rauracien then callovien and finally argovien. The soil of the various Climats (named plots with distinctive qualities) ranges from pebbly limestones, through marls, to sandy soils with a Jurassic basis.
Source : https://www.bourgogne-wines.com
Estate
Vincent et Sophie Morey - Chassagne Montrachet
Sophie and Vincent Morey operate a 20-hectare estate in the villages of Santenay, Chassagne-Montrachet, Saint-Aubin, Puligny-Montrachet and Cheilly-les-Maranges, all in the south of the Côte de Beaune in Burgundy.
The production of wines, whether village wines or grand crus, is the subject of the same attention and benefits from traditional know-how at every stage: from working the land, harvesting by hand to vinification in barrels.
