Sorry I have not posted in the past couple of weeks I was away last week and have really not had much of a chance to blog. That will soon be changing as beginning next week I will have much more opportunity to write with a nice change in the job schedule. So anyway I thought it would be fun tonight to blog as I taste. What I usually do is taste make my notes then a few days later actually write about the wine, but tonight I am going to just write as I am tasting to see if this changes how I describe and write about a wine.
So tonight, for Valentine's Day we are having a pork roast with a mushroom sauce, couscous, and corn. The roast is smelling lovely, but I will taste the wine now then have it with the meal. Tonight we are drinking a wine from Montagny which is in the Cote Chalonnaise in Southern Burgundy. It is 100% Chardonnay and sourced from the 1er Cru vineyard Les Chaniots from the 2007 vintage. The wine is produced by the Vignerons de Buxy, which is a winegrower collective made up of 120 growers in the region.
Vignerons de Buxy - Montagny - 1er Cru Les Chaniots- 2007 - Cote Chalonnais - Burgundy - France
This wine as I stated before is 100% Chardonnay grown in the Les Chaniots vineyard in Montagny. The vineyard is on a hillside above the villages of Jully les Buxy and Saint Vallerin it faces East South-East. The soil of the vineyard is comprised of limestone and calcerious clay. The wine was aged for 12-14 months in oak barrels.
Pale yellow with touches of gold in colour. Definite first impression of ripe apples, some apricot, spice like clove, with a really pretty mineral depth. The nose actually has some nice complexity and smells quite lovely. I really like the fresh mineral type background and how it intermixes with those apple, apricot aromas. Smooth medium bodied in the mouth flavours of apple spice and minerals all nicely framed by a good stream of acidity. Finishes fresh with just subtle lingering notes.
With a little bit of air the nose is taking on more notes of floral blossoms which nicely compliments the other aromas. Nice structure and balance it is definitely well made Chardonnay. The oak is definitely well integrated and well used. It is also taking on a longer finish with what tastes like baked apple. I like it its quite nice stuff. The acidity is actually really refreshing. The wine really complimented the meal, the structure and balance are so food friendly it just added little touches to round the whole meal out. So overall I like this wine its a nicely structured light on its feet Chardonnay. It has a nice level of complexity it's quite good. It certainly doesn't blow me away, but is a solid wine. The plan is to revisit this wine in a couple of days to see how it opens up I will post the notes when I taste it then. So as for right now I'd say Good/Very Good.
I tasted this wine again after 48 hours. The nose displayed light apple, mineral, apple blossoms and a bit of nutty depth. On the palate it is still nice an light showing a lot of purity with a new dimension of spicy earthy depth that cuts into the palate. Overall this is a pure and stylish wine I would have to bump up my overall rating to a Very Good.
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