MORE FRENCH WHITES, PLEASE! This Villages level Burgundy from
Macon is iridescent golden yellow in the glass. On her first smell, Kelly yelped, "Gorgonzola Apple Salad!" I got sliced golden apple and poop (in a good way). The mixture of fruit and funk in this wine is pretty undeniable. I also picked up golden raisins and laughing gas. This is a full bodied effort with a powerful flavor of perfectly ripe juicy gold apple with lovely soft citrus overtones and fig. The wine-makers note this Macon-Villages has a "suave, billowing aftertaste." I concur. For all its weight, this wine gets has a surprisingly smooth de-crescendoing lightness on its long finish. It completely blows my mind that that a chardonnay this complex and layered sees absolutely no oak. It's something I have yet to taste in any domestic producers' wines, whose stainless steel chards I find too bracing and quick. I'm happy that there are still bargains (picked this up for less than 20) to find there but I know that for most oenophiles, Burgundy can be a slippery slope. Please don't let me blow my next paycheck on one of
these!
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