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Saisons de Bourgneuf is the second wine of Château Bourgneuf
delivering textbook Côte de Nuits silhouette with exceptional freshness and salinity
then pot-distilled and brought slowly down to strength with demineralized water rather than a hard cut
Whether sipped neat over ice
Domaine de Montbourgeau, L'Etoile "Cuvee Speciale", 2011 TheVeryGreatest minimal sulfur at bottling onlyDomaine de Montbourgeau was founded a century ago in the tiny Jura town of L'Etoile, the star, named for the star shaped fossils that pepper its soils, left behind when ancient seas dried up. The estate is celebrated for whites that are complex, saline, and mostly oxidative, all waxy yellow fruit and ringing minerality. The Cuvee Speciale is the top Chardonnay, made for the long haul. This back vintage 2011 has had well over a decade to deepen, and it