SAINT VÉRAN
2019 Prélude Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau
| Grapes | Chardonnay |
| Colour | White |
| Origin | France, Burgundy |
| Other | Vegan, Certified Organic, Vegetarian |
| District | Mâconnais |
| Village | Saint Véran |
| ABV | 13.5% |
Aged all in 600l demi-muids with no new wood. Frantz's most precocious terroir, and always picked first - it's very ripe, and there is fatness, sweet fruit, all with a juiciness from a chalky soil which gives a firm dry mineral streak. Drinking range: 2021 - 2026 L&S (Oct 2020)
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The 2019 Saint-Véran "Prélude" has a simple, straightforward, quite malic bouquet that on this occasion is outclassed by the Viré-Clessé. The palate is well balanced with peach, grapefruit and apricot notes on the entry, an underlying stem ginger thread that becomes more prominent towards the finish. I suspect that the aromatics will gain complexity with bottle age, so afford it 18-24 months in bottle. Drinking range: 2023 - 2030 Rating: 90 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jan 2021)
Greenish straw colour. Lively, bright nose with real grip and pizzazz. Lots of nice ripe fruit and then very tingly acidity on the finish. Drinking range: 2021 - 2025 Rating: 15.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2021)
Blended from La Crouze, Pre-Jaux and Rochettes, typically early terroirs. All has been made in demi-muid this year, mainly Stockinger which Frantz likes in the hotter vintages. Another pale lemon colour with a lime tint. This is clearly smoother, softer, richer and rounder than the Mâcon Clos St-Pancras with very good white fruit which envelops the acidity which is still there. Pears perhaps. While there is significant volume of fruit, there is not quite the same precision. Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy (Jan 2020)
Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau
Frantz Chagnoleau and his wife Caroline Gon, who was until 2022 also the winemaker at the Comte Lafon Mâcon operation, are rising stars of the Mâconnais. Together they have a small domaine consisting of 3.5 hectares of Mâcon in a single block in Saint Albain, and several small plots in Viré Clessé, Saint Véran and Pouilly Fuissé, making up 6.8 hectares in total. All the vineyards are organically farmed (Ecocert certified).
Great care is taken at harvest to pick at the optimum moment for sugars, acidity and aromatic precursors, and they will stop the picking between parcels if they think that the ripening is not even across the whole domaine. Grapes are manually picked into 25kg cases, so as to get whole, undamaged grapes to the winery. After careful pressing, a very non-interventionist vinification takes place with natural yeasts in oak foudres.
The wines are kept on the lees to preserve freshness until the beginning of summer, when they are racked and lightly filtered, before bottling before the next harvest, except for some of the top wines which are aged for another six months in tank in order to develop fully. The wines are in a style which is bright and incisive, expressive and pure - and well worth seeking out.
Macon Villages Le Clos Saint Pancras : 3.55 ha
These vines were planted in 2000. Frantz uses a little bit of new wood - 10%. Élevage in demi-muids. This is the most northerly plot he works and it is high (350m) - facing east and made up of mineral, stony soil.
Viré Clessé Les Raspillères : 0.73 ha
Planted in 2005. A 30% slope and poor soil, thin at the top. Originally planted with Gamay, it was abandoned after phylloxera, then brought back from being scrubland by a forester who was passionate about wine and who realised it had once been a vineyard.
St Véran Prélude : 2.3 ha
Poor, calcareous soils. 15% new wood in demi-muids (500l barrels). 45 year old vines in several plots - the earliest ripening.
St Véran la Roche : 0.42 ha
70 year old vines at 200m in Chasselas, on marl, in mid-slope. Some is aged in demi-muids, but mostly it's in barrel with 10% new wood.
St Véran à La Côte : 0.25 ha
The highest vineyard of the domaine at 400m, on red earth, in Chasselas. Aged in demi-muids with no new wood.
St Véran La Fournaise : 0.21ha
All aged in demi-muids with no new wood. The whitest and most mineral soil they have.
Pouilly Fuissé Pastoral : 0.45 ha
Pouilly Fuissé Madrigal : 0.25 ha
From Vergisson, (mostly 'en Carmentrant') and all aged in barrel, but no new wood even if some are recent.
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