SAINT VÉRAN
2021 La Fournaise Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau
| Grapes | Chardonnay |
| Colour | White |
| Origin | France, Burgundy |
| Other | Certified Organic |
| District | Mâconnais |
| Village | Saint Véran |
| ABV | 13.0% |
| Vineyard | La Fournaise |
The La Fournaise is raised in Stockinger barrels - but all are at least 4 years old now - so there is no perceptible wood impact on this steely, pure wine. Badly affected by the hail it is great Frantz could salvage enough to produce this single site wine. Richer and broader than the Montchanin (which is almost extreme in its linear frame!). This does boast lovely minerality though too. But with greater weight in the mouth. Pear, peach and firm melon licked into shape with a taut line of crisp energetic citrus kick. Its really a perfect, text-book Chardonnay profile - but with zip, sleek lines and a freshness you find too rarely this far south. Delicious. L&S (Nov 2022)
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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 or 600l demi-muids and a few traditional 225l pièces, with no new wood.
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.
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2022 SAINT VÉRAN La Roche Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau
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