Mâcon-Chardonnay Climat Les Crays 2017

BRET BROTHERS

Mâcon-Chardonnay Climat Les Crays
2017

  • Nature
  • Organic
Country
France
Regulated designation
Appellation origine controlée (AOC)
Region
Burgundy
Subregion
Maconnais
Appellation
Mâcon-Chardonnay
Varietal(s)
Chardonnay 100 %
Alcohol percentage
12.5%
Colour
White
Sugar
Dry
Producer's website

About this winery

Historically Macon was known primarily as a source of vast quantities of cheap white wines made by village cooperatives – reliable everyday wines, but no match for the great whites of the Cote de Beaune. But that was then and this is now, and today Macon’s whites are recognized to be among the very best wine values on the planet. Jancis Robinson has been saying so for years, and in a recent Wall Street Journal article renowned novelist and wine columnist Jay McInerney declared Domaine de la...

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Press reviews

Wine Advocate

- 91 points -

William Kelley, (Vintage 2019)

The 2019 Mâcon-Chardonnay Les Crays is lovely, offering up aromas of honeyed orchard fruit, white flowers and pastry, followed by a medium to full-bodied, lively but gourmand palate, concluding with a saline finish.

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Decanter

- 91 points -

Charles Curtis, (Vintage 2019)

Produced from 0.5ha in a single, west-facing parcel on steep slopes with thin, marly soils over limestone. The result is a wine of marvellous purity, with notes of lemon peel and flint on the nose, and a fresh but concentrated feel on the palate. The certified organic grapes are pressed whole and fermented on native yeasts, mostly in cask.

Drinking Window 2021 - 2025

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Decanter

- 91 points -

(Vintage 2020)

Produced from 0.5ha in a single, west-facing parcel on steep slopes with thin, marly soils over limestone. The result is a wine of marvellous purity, with notes of lemon peel and flint on the nose, and a fresh but concentrated feel on the palate. The certified organic grapes are pressed whole and fermented on native yeasts, mostly in cask

See detailed press review