Marsannay Blanc, Charles Audoin - 2018

Name: Marsannay Blanc, Charles Audoin
Brand: Dom. Charles Audoin
SKU: 10085
Price: 44.99 USD
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Item # 10085 750mL

A white Marsannay from older vines (average age 90 years) planted in clay and limestone soils. The grapes were destemmed before pressing. After fermentation, the wine was aged in 500 liter French oak barrels - 20% of which were new.

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Color

White

Vintage

2018

Country

France

Region

Burgundy

Sub-Region

Côte de Nuits

Appellation/Village

Marsannay

Producer

Dom. Charles Audoin

Grape Variety

Chardonnay

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Staff Pick Notes

Is this Marsannay rich and creamy? You bet. It's also balanced perfectly. Toasty notes like crème caramel, nutmeg, pastry dough, and spiced pear are contrasted with clean, chalky minerals creating a supple tension in this wine. Tasteful decadence like is something you can only find in Burgundy. Cyril Audoin is the fifth-generation winemaker at this tiny, family owned estate. They own plots in Gevrey-Chambertin and Fixin, but the heart of the domaine's vines are all in Marsannay. Cyril credits his father Charles with the innovation that brought the winery into its current state, so Charles Audoin is the name that remains on the label. This kind of wine is wonderful with chicken in a mustard sauce or baked scallops.

- TD

Glossary

Burgundy

The range of wine styles offered in Burgundy rivals that of any other region. In Chablis, Chardonnay is left unoaked to produce lean, crisp, steely wines with incredible acidity - a far cry from the vanilla-oak bombs that so many consumers associate with this grape. Fans of rich, unctuous, and well-oaked Chardonnay will enjoy Chassagne-Montrachet, whose age-worthy offerings offer all the fatness of a California wine, yet retain a very Burgundian, mineral-driven core and great acidity....

Chardonnay

From Champagne to Chablis, it's hard (not to mention unpleasant) to avoid this famous white variety. During a huge popularity surge beginning in the late 1980s, Chardonnay plantings have increased dramatically -- not only in California's wine country, with which the variety is nearly synonymous, but also in Burgundy (its original, Old World home) and just about everywhere else in the winemaking world. It is a flexible, eager-to-please grape, responding well to just about anything a winemaker...