Structure
Drinking window
Best 3 to 30 years from vintage.
vintage3 yrs30 yrs32 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, honey, quince
Palate: honey, quince
It takes 130 kg of grapes to make 20 litres here, and the domaine bottles only five or six hectolitres in a good year. Honey-coloured, with complex walnut, honey and quince aromatics and a suave, very long palate balanced between alcohol and sugar.
What it pairs with
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Comte quiche as an aperitif
The domaine serves it cool at 10 degrees with a cheese quiche. -
Foie gras toasts
Named by Montbourgeau on this wine's serving card. -
Apricot tart or tarte tatin
Both are the producer's own dessert suggestions.
Facts
- Producer
- Domaine de Montbourgeau · visiting guide
- Grapes
- Chardonnay (60%), Savagnin (20%), Poulsard (20%)
- Classification
- L'Etoile AOC
- Oak
- Bunches picked before the main harvest and laid on racks in a ventilated loft until Christmas or the new year, then a long fermentation and cask ageing
- Drinking window
- 3-30 from vintage