100% Chardonnay.
Colour: Light gold colour.
Bouquet: Expressive nose of citrus, fresh pear, exotic fruit, hawthorn blossom and hazelnuts.
Palate: Full attack on citrus fruit, with toasted aromas, butter, light minerals and with a good length- lots of freshness. A quite lively, mature, well-structured and harmonious wine.
Enjoy as an aperitif or with light entrées, fresh-water fish in white sauce, omelettes, or scrambled eggs. It proves a worthy companion to goat cheeses, Gruyère, French Comté, and Cîteaux cheeses.
Serve at a temperature of average 12 to 14°C. (53 -55°F).
Drink from now or keep it 4 to 6 years after the vintage in good cellaring conditions.
Savigny-lès-Beaune wine is produced in the commune of Savigny-lès-Beaune in Côte de Beaune of
The name of the appellation is sometimes written simply as Savigny, without the lès-Beaune part. The production consists of slightly over 85 per cent red wine, and slightly less than 15 per cent white wine.
Soils : clay, limestone chalk soil with gravels.
Chardonnay grapes are harvested by hand, sorted and go then through a cold settling of 24 hours at 8°C. (46°F.).
The juice is then put in oak barrels (30 % new oak, 70% one year old barrels) for both the fermentation alcoholic and the malolactic and then aged 12 months with the lees.