Albert Bichot Mercurey Les Champs Michaux - Domaine Adélie 2022

Name: Albert Bichot Mercurey Les Champs Michaux - Domaine Adélie 2022
Brand: Albert Bichot
SKU: OATALBCHOT3
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About this Wine

Mercury's name refers to an ancient temple built by the Romans to honor the god Mercury.
With its surface area of 1600 acres 85 “village” appellations and 32 Premier Crus Mercurey is the largest appellation in the Côte Chalonnaise.
In 2005 Albert Bichot's estates expanded into this region with the creation of Domaine Adélie an estate with more than 12 acres of vines.

Located at an average altitude of 345 meters the vines in the "Champs Michaux" plot are planted on a plateau where the soil contains a particularly high proportion of clay but where there are also wide bands of limestone rock that are very close to the surface in areas. The Chardonnay grape is perfectly adapted to such conditions.

Tasting
The elegant nose features scents of white-fleshed fruit along with a discreet hint of oak. This wine is mineral nervous and round with lovely length on the palate.

Food/wine pairing
Taste this wine with finely prepared fish and seafood or with grilled or stewed white meats and poultry.

Type	White Wine
Varietal(s)	Chardonnay
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Appellation	Mercurey
Brand	Albert Bichot
Vintage	2022

Wines from Burgundy

A legendary wine region setting the benchmark for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay worldwide. In the Jurassic time period, the area was part of a vast, tropical sea. Over hundreds of millions of years, the seabed transformed into various layers of limestone, sandstone and clay soils that have entrapped the fossils of ancient sea creatures. These soils are the secret behind the zesty minerality that Burgundy wines are famous for.

Burgundy is probably the most terroir-centric wine region in France. Huge emphasis is placed on the specific vineyard, soil type, elevation, and angle of slope where the wines were made. This is reflected on the wine's labels where appellations are more prominently displayed compared to the producers’ names.

The most prestigious wines of the region come from a long and narrow escarpment called the Côte d'Or split into the Côte de Nuits to the north and the Côte de Beaune to the south. Côte de Nuits produces many of the world’s finest Pinot Noir’s, all but one of Burgundy’s red Grand Crus are made in this area. Whilst interestingly, the opposite is true for the Côte de Beaune where all but one of the Chardonnay Grand Crus are made. From this information it may seem you should be buying a Pinot from the North and Chardonnay from the south, that is only true for the pinnacle of Burgundian wines. Both outstanding reds and whites are produced throughout the Côte d'Or.

In Burgundy, they use a wine quality tier system that goes:
Grand Crus 1.4% of total production
Premier (1er) Crus 10.2% of total production
Appellations Villages 37.3% of total production
Appellations Regionales 51.1% of total production

When one refers to “Burgundy wines” they are usually talking about those produced in and around the Côte d'Or. While the Chardonnay’s from Chablis and the Gamay’s from Beaujolais are formally apart of the Burgundy wine region, those subregions are generally referred to by their own names rather than being considered “Burgundy wines”.

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