100% Chardonnay.
Colour: Elegant golden yellow.
Nose: A delicate, sheer floral bouquet.
Palate: The wine is well balanced offering a round structure and brioche notes, held by a beautiful liveliness.
This wine will be perfect paired with cold or warm starters : savoury tarts, meat pies or the ever-popular quiche lorraine. Enjoy it also with sea food (scallop-shells, salmon), light white meats, and dry cheeses (goat’s cheese for instance).
In the heart of the Côte Chalonnaise, in Burgundy, Rully is a village appellation including 23 climates classified as Premier Cru.
The whites extend over 246 Hectares (68 Ha in Premier Cru) and the reds 121 Ha (28 Ha in Premier Cru).
This Premier Cru vineyard is located under the « Mont Palais » hill, at an altitude of 373 m and with a southwestern exposure.
Our Montpalais plot was hand-harvested on September 2020, the 27th.
Pneumatic pressing followed by a cold settling between 12 and 24 hours, with the aim of eliminating the coarse bourbes (solid particles from the skin, stalks, skins, impurities that settle by sedimentation).
Alcoholic fermentation in thermo-regulated stainless steel vats for precise temperature control and homogeneity of the cuvée, followed by racking at the end of fermentation. Aging of the wines in 228 litre barrels (20% new barrels) on fine lees for 8 months.
Stirring: twice a month until malolactic fermentation (beginning of January) in order to develop complex aromas and preserve the purity of the fruit, to protect the wine from oxidation (barrel wall and bung hole) but also from reduction (accumulation of deposits, sometimes sulphurous, in the bottom of the barrel or vat), by putting the fine lees back into suspension.