Maison Chanzy Mercurey Clos du Roy Premier Cru 2019
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Its spicy and floral bouquet and juicy appeal make it to partner grilled fish or fish in sauce, cooked seafood, Asian cuisine, and hard cheeses.
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James Suckling
Refined nose of red fruit with some floral notes, but this tightly wound wine is only just beginning to open up on the seriously structured, medium-to full-bodied palate. Imposing, fine tannins at the long, polished finish.
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Wine Enthusiast
Charry notes of smoked hazelnut and burnt sage lend dimension to luminous blackberry and cherry in this Pinot Noir sourced from one of Mercurey's most famous premier-cru sites. Ripe and concentrated yet cutting and fresh, the mouthwatering, elegantly structured wine is kept firm by a fine-grained grip of tannins. Hold till 2024. The wine should improve through 2035.
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One of the most popular and versatile white wine grapes, Chardonnay offers a wide range of flavors and styles depending on where it is grown and how it is made. While it tends to flourish in most environments, Chardonnay from its Burgundian homeland produces some of the most remarkable and longest lived examples. California produces both oaky, buttery styles and leaner, European-inspired wines. Somm Secret—The Burgundian subregion of Chablis, while typically using older oak barrels, produces a bright style similar to the unoaked style. Anyone who doesn't like oaky Chardonnay would likely enjoy Chablis.
Beloved for its deep and flavorful reds made of Pinot Noir, Mercurey is the largest and most important village in the Côte Chalonnaise of Burgundy with most of its vineyards tucked away in hillsides or stretched along the aptly-named “Golden Valley.” This valley, sheltered from the moist and cool air that funnels along at lower elevations, is ideal for ripening Pinot noir.
Mercurey follows strict yield laws, similar to those at the Côte d’Or village level, promoting the development of deep, full, concentrated and age-worthy Pinot noirs. In their youth, a chewy and rich structure supports flavors of ripe strawberry, raspberry and cherry. Age brings notes of underbrush, tobacco and cocoa.
While Pinot Noir claims the majority of Mercurey vineyard acreage, Chardonnay does grow here and produces uniqely floral and spicey scented white wines.