SAINT VÉRAN
2022 à la Côte Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau
| Grapes | Chardonnay |
| Colour | White |
| Origin | France, Burgundy |
| District | Mâconnais |
| Village | Saint Véran |
| ABV | 13% |
Broad feel on the nose and the palate. Gourmand and expressive fruit – you can feel the difference in the soil type here. Very appetising. Tight right now, but more to come. South facing vines up high at 450m up. Redder soil than Frantz's other holdings and the wine has a broader aspect. Fermented and aged in a mix of Demi-muids and barrels. L&S (Dec 2023)
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The 2022 Saint Véran à la Côte comes from a parcel located at 400m that tends to ripen slowly, aged for 12 months in demi-muids and barrels. This offers light brushes of quince and Clementine, a hint of wild honey but that remains in the background. The palate is beautifully balanced with a perfect line of acidity, quite a phenolic Saint-Véran, a touch more peppery than I remember this from barrel with a very persistent finish. Absolutely delicious. Drinking range: 2024 - 2038 Rating: 93 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jun 2024)
This high altitude Chasselas vineyard faces south with a rich red soil, full of iron oxide which liberates potassium – hence a high pH reading despite good total acidity. After the summer flowers of La Fournaise, A La Côte has a slightly heavier nose. This version of St-Véran certainly has density, not too oaky though there are some wood tannins at the back. A little disjointed at the moment but I am fully confident that it will all come into place. Drinking range: 2025 - 2027 Rating: **** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy (Mar 2024)
Certified organic. Ripe, sweet citrus and a suggestion of sweet spice as well as a fine stone-dust character. Not fully meshed on the palate but with promise. (JH) Drinking range: 2026 - 2029 Rating: 16+ Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Feb 2024)
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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