Some technical details:
Appellation: Mercurey AOC
Year: 2017
Region: Burgundy (FR)
Alcohol: 13%
Where this wine come from?
Burgundy is one of world’s oldest and most prestigious wine region; it is here that pinot noir, one of the most noble grape varieties, and Chardonnay find their maximum expression.
In Burgundy there are 1247 different Climats, each Climat is a vine plot, precisely delimited according to its own microclimate and specific geological conditions, which has been carefully marked out and named over the centuries.
Soil: the soil in Burgundy can change radically from one vineyard to the next. They contains a mix of clay, gravel and jurassic limestone and marl.
Curiosity
- The vineyard where this Chardonnay comes from is 25 years old.
- Thanks to its strong DNA, Chardonnay is the most widely planted white grape variety, globally.