Montagny Les Cores: a very successful Montagny in the 2018 magnificent harvest in the south of Burgundy, at unbeatable prices!
Montagny "Les Coers" 2018
Montagny Les Cores: a very successful Montagny in the 2018 magnificent harvest in the south of Burgundy, at unbeatable prices!
* Champs requis
| light | powerful |
| easy | complex |
| mineral | not mineral |
| Not Fruity | Fruity |
| Not Woody | Woody |
This Montagny from the superb place called "Les Cores" made by Domaine Berthenet is very successful. Low in quantity but bringing very ripe grapes and therefore very qualitative, this year 2018 allows to give character and a lot of expression to the wines, all on a very nice balance.
This white wine from Burgundy made from Chardonnay offers complexity and a beautiful aromatic richness: dried fruits, hazelnuts but also white flowers, this Montagny wine will share floral elements such as acacia and honeysuckle. On the fresh fruit side, you can find pear or peach. Spicy notes are also present in the mouth.
Very pleasant now, it will still benefit from being kept.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
