Montagny 2020 "Tête de Cuvée"
- White
- 75 cl
The famous Montagny "Tête de Cuvée" of Domaine Berthenet in vintage 2020. A dense and very aromatic Montagny Village!
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Montagny 2020 "Tête de Cuvée"
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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
Montagny "Tête de Cuvée" 2020
This Montagny village made by Domaine Berthenet is fragrant and intense at the aromatic level. Dense in the mouth, thanks to a 2019 harvest bringing very ripe grapes that give character and a lot of expression to the wines, all on a beautiful acidity / alcohol balance.
This white wine of Burgundy based on Chardonnay offers complexity and beautiful aromatic richness: dried fruits, hazelnut but also white flowers, this Montagny wine will share floral elements such as acacia and honeysuckle. As for fresh fruit, we can find pear or peach. Spicy notes are also present in the mouth.
Very pleasant now, it will still benefit from being kept.
Operating temperature: 10 to 13°
mets & vins
Intense and floral Burgundy white wine: terrine, small oven, freshwater fish, sushi, crab, prawns, seafood, veal in white sauce, poultry blanquette, poultry fillets, county, gouda, camembert, brie
caractéristiques
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Appellation
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Type of Wine
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Wine Making
Oak casks -
Grape Variety
Chardonnay -
Harvest
Manual -
Burgundy Region
Côte Chalonnaise -
Vintage
2020 -
Service
12 to 14 degrees at the table, 10 to 12 degrees at the aperitif -
Custody potential
2024
appellation
Montagny
Wine Characteristics
Montagny produces white wines only. To the eye, these wines present the classic features of a burgundian Chardonnay: limpid, pale gold colour with green highlights when young, darker gold colour with age. Their aromas are acacia, mayflower, honeysuckle, bramble flowers, and sometimes violet and bracken. Of the livelier scents, lemon-balm and gun-flint may be added.
Hazelnut, white peach and ripe pear would not be surprising, either. In the mouth, the wine is always fresh, young at heart, frisky, alluring, and rich in spicy back-flavours. Refinement and delicacy are harmoniously matched to a durably well-built structure.
Wine Steward’s Tip
Highly-bred, subtle and rich in delicate nuances, Montagny can be properly matched only with foods of comparable balance and aromatic intensity, for example, veal in white sauce suits it very well. As far as seafood is concerned, steamed or poached crustaceans, noble fish (plain fried, grilled, or, better still, steamed) are well-suited. Paella, made with meat and/or fish, also goes well with this wine since the smoothtasting dish with its diversity of aromas will be lit up by Montagny’s allure and aromatic richness. The same goes for cooked seafood. As for cheeses, it brings out the best in goat cheeses, Beaufort, Comté, Emmental and Saint-Paulin.
Serving temperature: 10 to 12°C.
Situation
At the southern end of the Côte Chalonnaise, four villages (Buxy, Montagnylès-
Buxy, Jully-lès-Buxy and Saint-Vallerin), have been banded together as a single Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée since 1936. Hereabouts, as in the Côte de Nuits or at Chassagne-Montrachet, wine-growing and stone-quarrying amicably share the landscape. Buxy, with its 12th century fortifications, is an important heritage site and retains its independent spirit. The wine, grown only from Chardonnay grapes, breathes freshness and clarity. The monks of Cluny preferred it to any other.
Terroirs
Facing East and South-East these hillsides of Bajocien limestone are planted with vines at altitudes of 250-400 metres. Marls and marly limestones of the Jurassic lias and older trias (200 million years BC approx.) make an ideal terroir.
The gravelly lower Triassic which surfaces at Buxy is in contact here with the Kimmeridgian limestone which dominates in the geology of Chablis.
Source : https://www.bourgogne-wines.com
Estate
Domaine Berthenet - Montagny
Berthenet estate. Producer Harvesting wine in Montagny.
Jean Pierre Berthenet has successfully taken over and developed this estate of more than 20 hectares of vineyards owned in Montagny. He now passes the torch to his sons.
The wines of Montagny and Montagny Premier Cru Berthenet are fine and concentrated, very representative of the great white wines of this beautiful appellation of southern Burgundy.
