Wine Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru AOC Les Macherelles 2009
Reviews of purchase Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru AOC Les Macherelles 2009
Tasting Notes
Wine beautiful yellow color with golden tints.
Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Macherelles 2009 - an excellent rich, but at the same time elegant and complex wine with great structure and balance, which has a long finish with soft creamy notes.
The wine shows a seductive aromas of white flowers of acacia, toast, vanilla, sweet peaches that are exquisitely highlighted mineral undertones.
Wine makes it a superb accompaniment to the exquisite dishes of white meat sauce, grilled fish, such as turbot, soft and semi-hard cheeses.
Interesting Facts
Chassagne-Montrachet Premiers Crus "Le Masherel" - white wine, mineral complex. Vintage 2009 is characterized as outstanding for the white wines of Burgundy. Chardonnay to produce this wine are grown in the vineyard of the total area of 0.16 hectares of clay-calcareous soils and eastern exposure. The grapes are harvested by hand, and then gently pressed pneumatic press. Continuous fermentation takes place under strictly controlled temperature. After that, the wine is kept for 17 months partly in oak barrels. Storage capacity wine Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Macherelles 2009 is at least 10 years of age.
Hubert Lamy is now considered one of the most successful producers of wine in Saint-Aubin. Olivier Lamy, son of Hubert, began to run a business in 1992, and since then the company has become more and more prestigious, which is not surprising, because the area of Saint-Aubin, where vineyards are located Lamy - a real jewel of Burgundy.
Today Domaine Hubert Lamy - a modern three-storey winery, which is practiced gravitational method of winemaking, ie, excludes the use of mechanical means. All movements fault occur under the influence of gravity, which makes the wine more fineness and texture. Olivier loves experiments - he moved to the 600-liter tonne instead of 225-liter barriques, because, in his opinion, it will save the purity of fruit flavor from excessive oak aging. Now almost all the wines are aged in these containers.
Lamy is committed to providing exquisite and colorful wines that have emphasized natural mineral terroir St Aubin. In the year produced less than ten thousand boxes of each wine.
