Structure
Drinking window
Best 5 to 40 years from vintage.
vintage5 yrs40 yrs42 yrs
Critic scores
No critic score is published for this bottle that we can cite with a reviewer, a vintage and a review year, so none is shown. The rating in the header is our own.
In the glass
Aroma: walnut, curry, green apple
Palate: walnut, curry, green apple
Organic and Demeter-certified Savagnin off the blue-grey Lias marl of Chateau-Chalon, seven to eight years under the veil with a third lost to evaporation. Bourdy describes a deep golden robe, an intense nose and a long finish on walnut, curry and green apple. Residual sugar under 20 mg per litre.
What it pairs with
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Comte
The appellation's defining match for a wine this savoury and saline. -
Chicken with morels
Curry and walnut in the wine meet the mushroom cream directly. -
Curried fish
Bourdy names curry among the wine's own aromas, which spiced dishes echo.
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine Bourdy · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Savagnin (100%)
- Classification
- Chateau-Chalon AOC
- Oak
- Pressed at 1.5 bar, settled, fermented, then seven to eight years in old small oak casks left unfilled so a yeast veil forms. About 30 percent evaporates. Bottled in the 62 cl clavelin
- ABV
- 14.0%
- Drinking window
- 5-40 from vintage