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2005 Domaine Valette Macon-Chaintre Vieilles Vignes
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2005 Domaine Valette Macon-Chaintre Vieilles Vignes

Producer: Domaine Valette
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: Chardonnay
Origin: France
Region: Burgundy
Appellation: Macon

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89(+?) Points | International Wine Cellar , March 2008

($30) Yellow-gold. Nutty pit fruit and smoked meat on the nose, with a complex array of herb and dried floral qualities adding complexity. Chewy peach and apricot flavors offer impressive depth, with firm minerality adding cut to the finish. This gained freshness with air so by all means decant before serving.

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The finest red and white wines of Burgundy set the standard for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. At their best, Burgundy wines are the world's most aromatically complex, silky, and seductive wines, thanks to their ineffable combination of fruits, flowers, minerals, and earth, and their ability to project flavor authority without excess weight. But first-rate Burgundies are produced in limited quantities. Burgundy is a minefield for the...
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Chardonnay

The best Chardonnays in the world continue to arrive from the region where the grape first emerged: the chalk, clay, and limestone vineyards of Burgundy and Chablis. While the origins of the grape were disputed for many years, with some speculating that the grape came all the way from the Middle East, DNA researchers at the University of California-Davis proved in 1999 that Chardonnay actually developed...
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