Maison Roche de Bellene Blanc Montagny Villages 2018

Maison Roche de Bellene Blanc Montagny Villages 2018Nicolas Potel is something of a Burgundy legend, and his Maison Roche de Bellene is one of the region's most trusted ngociant houses sourcing from organically and sustainably farmed old vine parcels and bottling them with a reverence for terroir that shows in every glass. This Montagny is hand harvested Chardonnay from 30 year old vines on clay and limestone slopes, fermented with native yeasts, and aged in French oak. The result is rich and round on

with layers of crushed red berries

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While he once used no sulfur at all

The estate barely survived the French Revolution and phylloxera

holding just a few small tanks and a couple of barrels

A red wine and game jus reduction for the sauce

here it is

and earthy spice

and deep berry notes

earning a strong VN94-96

Very grapey

this is just so good