Domaine Rougeot 'La Monatine' Bourgogne Cote d'Or, 2023 wet stone and white grape juice

and white grape juice

and game birds or lamb shank

and the juice is aged in large used barrels

and grow from 30+ year old vines on clay and limestone soil

Domaine Rougeot 'La Monatine' Bourgogne Cote d'Or, 2023 wet stone and white grape juice100% Chardonnay, just outside of Meursault. The organic grapes are sourced from 60 year old vines from a small vineyard plot facing south southeast. Hand harvested and direct pressed into barrel where indigenous yeast fermentation and malolactic conversion take place. The wine ages for 11 18 months in used oak barrels before bottling. The richness and palpability of Meursault comes through in this bottling, with faint but sharp citrus and orchard