Chardonnay is the grape variety of our white Coteaux Bourguignons:
- 10,000 plants/hectare.
- Pruning: Cordon de Royat and Guyot.
- Harvested by hand.
- Yield: 60 hl/hectare.
To be served simply as an aperitif or with a salad of avocados, poultry, a butter fish, onigiri, stuffed calamari, a dish of mussels, an omelette with bacon, pasta or a good pizza lightly seasoned.
Serve at a temperature of about 12 to 14°C. (54-57°F.).
To taste now but also keeps very well for 3 years.
The Coteaux Bourguignons covers the same ground as that of the appellation for Burgundy. It covers 384 communes in the Yonne, Côte d’Or, Saône et Loire and Rhône départements. It begins in the Chablis and Auxerrois region in the north, stretching south to the Macon area through Côte d’Or and the Côte Chalonaise.
The Coteaux Bourguignons appellation exists for red, white and rosé wines. This appellation can be produced from a blend of different grapes. The harvest for the Coteaux Bourguignons White represents around 20,000 hectolitres covering 350 hectares.
Our grapes come from the Côte de Beaune, Côte Chalonnaise and from the North of the Mâconnais area:
- Soils are mainly clay and marl with a little granite.
- Relief: hills.
- South-east and south facing.
- Altitude: 250 to 600 metres.