Olivier Merlin Mâcon La Roche Vineuse 2021

Olivier Merlin Mâcon La Roche Vineuse is a Chardonnay from the domaine's home village in the northern Mâconnais.

The Mâcon appellation allows a number of named villages to add their name to the label, and La Roche Vineuse is among the best regarded of them, in no small part because of the work done here since Olivier and Corinne Merlin took over the Domaine du Vieux Saint-Sorlin in 1987. The Mâconnais is Chardonnay country on limestone, warmer and gentler in relief than the Côte d'Or to the north, and it was for a long time treated chiefly as a source of volume. The Merlins were among the growers who changed that view, pressing whole bunches, fermenting slowly and ageing in barrel rather than in tank. Their son Théo now works alongside them.

Serve at around 11 degrees with fish, poultry or soft cheese; it drinks well from release and holds for a few years.

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