Verget Mâcon-Pierreclos Lieu Secret 2022

Name: Verget Mâcon-Pierreclos Lieu Secret 2022
Brand: Verget
SKU: BIBVERG9
Price: 85.65 AUD
Availability: InStock

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Critic reviews

Robert Parker/Wine Advocate – “Another of the portfolio's highlights is the 2022 Mâcon-Pierreclos Lieu Sécret, a racy and precise wine that offers up aromas of pear, hazelnuts, white flowers and freshly baked bread. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and incisive, with a chalky, penetrating finish, it has turned out well.” - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate

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Description

This wine is made from three parcels of vines that touch Domaine Guffens-Heynen’s legendary Chavigne vineyard. The exact location remains a secret as Jean-Marie doesn’t want his neighbour to sell these grapes to anyone but him! This year, the vines were harvested in several passages to obtain perfect ripeness from each vine. It was vinified in barrels with 25% new oak, and, in this case, stirring was carried out “thanks to the exceptional state of the lees”. The result is, as you might expect from a master of this terroir, a wine of great density and power with a lingering finish of candied citrus peel and chalky minerals. This is simply a marvellous wine.

Type	White Wine
Varietal(s)	Chardonnay
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Brand	Verget
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”.