Terres Dorees Beaujolais Blanc PRIMITIVO

Terres Dorees Beaujolais Blanc PRIMITIVOWelcome to the new Burgundy! JP Brun's Chardonnay from southern Beaujolais will make you think you're drinking Meursault (for a tenth of the price!) 100% Chardonnay, roundly textured and rich but with no oakiness to weigh it down 100% Chardonnay. On his home estate in Charnay in southern Beaujolais, Brun planted Chardonnay in 1983 on the sandy, limestone rich clay soils. The vines are organically farmed and the fruit harvested by hand. The grapes are

mouth feel

Francois Ducrot now produces his own wines to showcase underrepresented parts of the Languedoc

blood orange

rich and plummy with excellent balance of fruit

tobacco and spiced liquorice

Danilo Thomain is the only independent vigneron working this tiny appellation only five hectares in size

complex merlot that sits deliberately and smoothly on the palate

"ripe" nose with fruit like apricot

Direct pressing and clarification of must

Floral aromas of white rose and gardenia

and buys in grapes from another 346 acres

dark-berried richness and send it skyward in a cloud of near-weightless flavor that lasts