Bourgogne Côte d’Or Vieilles Vignes AOC 2023 1500ml Magnum

Wine description for Bourgogne Côte d’Or Vieilles Vignes AOC 2023 1500ml Magnum by Rémi Jobard

Character

A Chardonnay of crystalline clarity and cool fruit, revealing its origins with complete transparency. The magnum bottle promises a particularly slow, harmonious evolution. This is no wine for the impatient – it needs air and attention to reveal its full depth.

Terroir & Origin

The vines are rooted in the vineyards surrounding Meursault, one of the great white wine villages of the Côte de Beaune. Rémi Jobard has farmed his nine hectares organically since the 1990s – Ecocert-certified, without herbicides, with grassed rows and manual labour. Cordon pruning naturally limits yields, whilst old vines yield grapes of exceptional concentration.

Grape Variety & Vinification

Chardonnay, pressed over six to twelve hours – a gentle pace that has become rare in modern Burgundy. Only the finest must enters the cellar, free from bitter compounds. Maturation takes place in 600-litre Stockinger foudres rather than small barriques: less wood contact, slower oxygen exchange, and some fifteen months of rest. The result is a wine that speaks of its terroir rather than the cask – unfiltered, stabilised by two winters of ageing.

Food Pairings

Alongside sole meunière, coq au vin blanc or a young Comté, this wine reveals its full stature. It also finds an equal partner in porcini risotto or simply pan-fried pike-perch. The magnum format makes it the ideal wine for a long evening à deux – or for patient cellaring.