Bourgogne “Perrières” Blanc Monopole AOP 2020

The Clos du Moulin aux Moines vineyard is located in an old Cistercian monastery and looks back on a history of over 1000 years. In the middle of the Côtes de Beaune, it is located between Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet. The Domaine Clos du Moulin aux Moines, under the direction of Willy Roulande, cultivates vineyards in Pommard, Monthelie and Auxey-Duresses according to the guidelines of biodynamics. The top priority is to bring the quality from an intact ecosystem as gently as possible into the cellar and then onto the bottle.

All work in the 15 hectares of vineyards is done by hand, and the vineyard work is done with horses instead of machines. The vines are on average 40 years old and the yields are relatively low at just over 30 hectolitres. In the cellar, the musts are carefully matured in large casks, as they are increasingly moving away from small barriques in order to express the delicate character of the wines as unadorned as possible. The wines are fermented spontaneously with their own yeasts in concrete and then aged with as little new wood as possible. Wines with transparent fruit and delicate vibration outline the style of the domaine.

Pale yellow with bright clear reflections.

For a Bourgogne blanc, the nose offers far more than one is inclined to expect, even though this is a monopollage. Delicately citrusy, it is reminiscent of lemon abrasion and white, all loosely sketched on a chalky canvas - Oops, I spilled the lemon drink! Complemented by some summer meadow along with hay flowers and subtle wood spice, it smells with mineral transparency of quince on biscuit with crème patissier and a slightly smoky top note of toasted almonds.

It opens the drink with a firm bite. The juvenile appearance still seems a little impetuous and will soon take its leave into adolescence, if you don't drink it all beforehand. With a firm phenolic core and attractive saltiness, it is juicy and animating on the palate, yet slender as a whip with a clearly contoured appearance and sinewy structure. The calibre of Bourgogne blanc with Monopol delivers much more than it promises and allows us a Burgundy for every occasion.