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2017 Domaine Gueugnon-Remond Cuvee L’Aurore Vieilles Vignes Bourgogne Blanc Burgundy 750 ml
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A Sunny Mâconnais Morning in a Bottle
When you buy a Chardonnay from the Mâconnais, which sits to the south of Burgundy’s most revered vineyard land, you’re not paying for a famous winemaker, a legendary label, or the prestige of a famous parcel. You’re paying for the wine in the bottle, period.
Wine writer Andrew Jefford once described the Mâconnais as “rumpled pastureland on which vines perch wherever a promising hill shows up,” also saying the wines “offer some of France's best white wine value.” That’s undoubtedly true. There’s a ray of golden sunshine in every bottle of Chardonnay from the Mâconnais. The combination of limestone-rich soils and a slightly warmer climate than in the Côte d'Or to the north helps give the wines a plump, juicy, charming profile that is closer to the California end of the Chardonnay spectrum.
Domaine Guegnon-Remond’s Cuvée L’Aurore Vieilles Vignes Bourgogne Blanc is exhibit A. Made from 60-year old vines grown on limestone-clay soils by a small family domaine, it’s harvested very early in the morning, hence the name: Aurora is the Latin word for dawn, and the goddess of dawn. There’s a freshness and vitality to this wine that makes that name so apt.
Clean, fresh, and lively, with creamy and toasty notes that come from 100% malolactic fermentation—but not new oak—this is a remarkable Chardonnay value for weeknight consumption, the kind of wine you want in your hand at the stove and all through dinner.