Ideal maturity for this Ladoix premier Cru blanc 2016 ! Among the rare vintages in Burgundy, the white Ladoix is a wine of rare elegance.
Here offered as a 1er Cru lieu-dit "Les Gréchons" and made by the Michel Mallard & Fils estate.
Ladoix Premier Cru white 2016 - "Les Gréchons"
Complex
Powerful
Mineral
Fruity
Woody
Rare (production of only 8 hectares of Ladoix white 1er Cru) and refined, this Ladoix white 1er Cru "Les Gréchons" 2016 is a complex, ample and structured wine.
The "Les Gréchons" climate is located on marl-limestone soil and with a south-east hillside exposure.
Located at the foot of the Corton hill, the Les Gréchons climate is one of the most beautiful white terroirs of the Ladoix appellation. With this 2016 vintage, Domaine Mallard signs a Chardonnay that is at once ample, precise and elegant, which today benefits from a beautiful evolution, revealing all the complexity of the great Burgundy whites that have reached maturity.
The colour, of luminous gold with slightly golden reflections, announces a blossoming wine. The nose is rich and harmonious, combining aromas of white and yellow fleshed fruit, notes of dried flowers, delicate honey and dried fruit, accompanied by subtle buttery, toasted touches and a fine minerality. On the palate, the attack is round and generous, quickly balanced by a beautiful freshness and a mineral structure that brings tension and precision. The long and elegant finish reveals slightly saline nuances and a beautiful aromatic persistence.
Now ripe, this Ladoix 1er Cru is the ideal accompaniment to fish in sauce, shellfish, scallops, creamed poultry or even ripened pressed cheeses.
When ripe, this Ladoix 1er Cru is the ideal accompaniment to fish in sauce, shellfish, scallops, poultry in cream or even matured pressed cheeses.
Features
Appellation : Ladoix Premier Cru
Climate: Les Gréchons
Vintage: 2016
Domain: Michel Mallard & Fils
Grape variety: 100% Chardonnay
Region: Burgundy – Côte de Beaune
Maturation: in oak barrels
Ageing potential: drink now until around 2028
A fully ripe white Premier Cru, combining richness, complexity and freshness, faithful to the elegance of the great terroirs of Ladoix.
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Appellation
Premier CruType of Wine
StillWine Making
Oak casksGrape Variety
ChardonnayHarvest
ManualBurgundy Region
Côte de BeauneVintage
2023Service
12 to 14 degreesCustody potential
2030
Red: the colour of this wine often suggests that of blackcurrants – bright garnet with purplish highlights. The bouquet is full of strawberry, cherry jam or cherries in brandy. Vegetable (elder) or spicy (clove) notes are also met with, as well as coffee or cocoa. In the mouth this wine is tender, supple, rounded, full, velvety and structured with just the right amount of tannins.
White: these are gold or pale straw colour. Their aromas lean towards acacia with often a buttery grace note. They boast a classic bouquet featuring plum, ripe apple, quince, fig, or spiced pear. They are lively and firm, but with their impulses well under control. This is a wine whose fat is balanced by freshness and spontaneity. It gains in mellowness with time.
Red: its silky tannins and rounded texture incline it towards Parma-type hams or fibrous meats with subtle flavours like rabbit or boiled beef. Giblets in sauce or feathered game will also gain from its melting and velvety tannic structure. Its fleshy mouth will smooth out the spices in curried meat and poultry and even handle strongly aromatic antipasti and marinated vegetables. It goes well with mild cheeses such as Vacherin, Reblochon or Cîteaux.
Serving temperature: 15 to 16°C.
White: full and sinewy, it perfectly suits the salty flavours of shellfish and cooked seafood and with Asian cooking its great generosity attenuates the spices of, for example, fish and prawn dishes. Cheeses: blue cheeses, goat cheeses and Gruyère.
Serving temperature: 11 to 12°C.
If you are coming from Dijon, it is at Ladoix that the Côte de Beaune begins. Ladoix shares with Aloxe-Corton and Pernand-Vergelesses the honour of producing the famous wines of the hill of Corton. The appellation was instituted in 1937. The vineyards grow red or white wines according to whether the soils best suits the Pinot Noir or the Chardonnay grape.
The soils of the upper slopes are pebbly and reddish (iron-rich olite) with a high limestone content and quite marly. These suit great white wines. Mid-slope, reddish-brown calcareous soils with abundant limestone debris grow full-bodied and flamboyant red wines. Clayey soils at the foot of the slopes take away some of their fire. Exposures: easterly or South-East to South. Altitude: 230 to 325 metres.
Source : https://www.bourgogne-wines.com
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