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Ramonet, Bourgogne Chardonnay 2018
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Description
The Bourgogne Chardonnay offers up a pretty bouquet of ripe lemon, crisp green apple, white flowers and beeswax. On the palate, it's medium-bodied, satiny and succulent with ripe balancing acids and an expressive core of fruit. While this is a potentially age-worthy wine, note that a portion of this cuvée is bottled under Nomacorc and is best consumed in the near term.
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: William Kelley
The 2018 Bourgogne Chardonnay exhibits aromas of white peach and warm bread, followed by a medium-bodied, ample and fleshy palate that's round and succulent, with an easygoing, somewhat ephemeral style in this generous vintage. Bottled under Nomacorc, this will be at its best young.
About the Producer
Domaine Ramonet is one of the finest producers in Burgundy, known for the Chardonnay from Chassagne Montrachet village to Montrachet Grand Cru. Domaine Ramonet has been producing consistently high quality Chardonnay in Chassagne Montrachet for 3 generations, it is difficult to talk about Chassagne Montrachet without mentioning Ramonet. Pierre Ramonet came to Burgundy in the late 1920s with nothing more than a knapsack, he started off buying grapes and vinifying them, then later buying his first vineyard in the 1930s. Domaine Ramonet gained a lot of attention very soon after bottling his first wines in his estate. Clive Cotes even wrote ‘Ramonet in white is the equivalent of Henri Jayer or the DRC in red’. By 1950s, Pierre has acquired a handsome holding of Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyards in the Montrachet hill. Amusingly, when Pierre Ramonet has saved enough money in the 1978 and decided to buy a plot in the mighty Montrachet vineyard, he went to the lawyer’s office in Beaune and paid in a thick wad of cash.
