Domaine Valette Macon Chaintre Vieilles Vignes, Maconnais, France

瓦萊特酒莊馬孔尚特老藤白葡萄酒

點擊次數(shù)：7051

The 2004 Macon-Chaintre displays aromas of fresh minerals and ripe apples. Its medium-bodied personality is satin-textured, expressive, and boasts loads of white fruit flavors. Drink it between 2007 and 2011. Visiting the Valette family, whose home/estate is perched on Chaintre’s hillside affording views of the Saone valley (all the way to the Alps), is always a fascinating adventure. Ever since the family patriarch, Gerard Valette, left the local coop, he and his family have been fiercely independent, bucking both viticultural and winemaking traditions. For example, when all their neighbors had finished harvesting the 2003s, the Valettes were waiting for the fruit to be ripe, and when all their neighbors had bottled and shipped their 2004s, the Valettes’ were still undergoing elevage. Sadly, this outstanding, iconoclastic estate, whose offerings grace the finest restaurant wine lists in France, is no longer imported into the United States.No American importer.