La Soufrandière Mâcon-Vinzelles Le Clos de Grand-Père 2023

Name: La Soufrandière Mâcon-Vinzelles Le Clos de Grand-Père 2023
Brand: La Soufrandiere
SKU: BIB25795-750
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About this Wine

Biodynamic. This grows in a very old clos (walled vineyard) that sits on rocky, hard limestone bedrock and is supposedly an old Roman path. The vineyard sits on the lower part of the Pouilly-Vinzelles slope and is therefore classed as Mâcon-Vinzelles. The Bret brothers’ maternal grandfather purchased the site, hence the name Le Clos de Grand-Père. Speaking of maturity, some plants in this 0.7-hectare plot are now over 100 years old, and the average vine age is around 60 years. As is usual for this cuvée, the 2023 was mostly tank-raised, with just 10% old barrels used for maturation. It is from a lower-lying site that tends to deliver the most appreciable wine in the range. There is super energy this year alongside a triad of succulent fruit, citrusy acidity and powdery structure that puts many more expensive Burgundies to shame.

Type	White Wine
Varietal(s)	Chardonnay
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Brand	La Soufrandiere
Vintage	2023

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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