Domaine Patrick Miolane, Chassagne Montrachet Blanc 2022

This Chassagne-Montrachet is a brilliant light yellow in colour, with golden highlights. The nose is rich in white floral notes. On the palate, the mineral quality of the terroir is evident, but the wine has a mellow, rounded finish.

After harvesting by hand, the grapes are sorted on a vibrating table to remove dry berries, leaf debris and stalks. They then pass to another sorting table for the removal of any grapes that are unripe, damaged or showing signs of rot. The sound grapes are pressed to facilitate the extraction of colour and flavours. Before passing to the vat, the grapes are stemmed: removal of the stalks reduces the astringency of the future wine.
Fermentation is begun slowly, using native yeasts, and continues for between 15 and 20 days. The wine is then aged in barrels for a lengthy period of 36 months.

This wine may be drunk in the first two years, but is best kept for between seven and ten years.

The Miolane estate is an ancient family-run business which has been handed down through the generations. Patrick Miolane took control in 1983, at the age of twenty and now works with his daughter Barbara who joined the team in 2005. Father and daughter manage 9 hectares of vines, in the village of Saint-Aubin, but the estate also extends into the neighbouring communities of Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet. Patrick and Barbara make a perfect pair, each responsible for their own sphere of activity: Dad looks after the vineyard; Barbara is in charge of wine-making and marketing.