Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chaumes Verget 1996

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Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chaumes Verget 1996

The wine

The Côte de Beaune, renowned for its remarkable fine white wines, finds a refined expression in Les Chaumes, a Chassagne-Montrachet climat known for its well-drained, clay-limestone soils that encourage slow, expressive ripening of Chardonnay. Manual harvests are followed by careful sorting to retain only the ripest and healthiest bunches. In the winery, fermentation takes place in oak casks with native yeasts to preserve the integrity of the terroir. The wine is then aged for 12 months in cask, with around 20% new oak, adding complexity and texture while maintaining freshness and purity.
The wine shows a golden-yellow hue with bright highlights. The nose offers delicate white flower notes, pear and white peach, lifted by subtle buttery and toasty accents. On the palate, a generous, silky attack opens onto a creamy texture supported by finely etched minerality.

The brilliant wine-maker Jean-Marie Guffens is behind Maison Verget which produces wines from grapes sourced across Burgundy but predominately from Mâconnais. This company created in 1990 in Sologny brings together all the wines of the trading business, with a superb range of appellations, from Chablis to Mâconnais, to highlight the specificities and nuances of each terroir.
The wines have acquired a solid reputation for their diamond-polished characteristics which are always very pure as well as being both rich and taut at the same time. The grapes are sourced from exemplary partner wineries and the winemaking and maturation processes are conduction with the same precision. A safe bet in Burgundy, Jean-Marie Guffens-Heynen is a Master in the art of Chardonnay. Since 2012, the brilliant oenologist Julien Desplans has joined him as a cellar master. Trained at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, he takes the company to new heights, helping it win the award “Trading Business of the Year” in 2020 from the French wine magazine La Revue du vin de France. Read our article about Maison Verget on the iDealwine blog