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Domaine Guillemot-Michel, Viré-Clessé Quintaine 2020
White Wine from France - Burgundy
Low yields for this part of Burgundy and excellent attention to detail on this tiny 6-hectare estate explain the high quality. Unoaked, fermented in tank and kept on its lees until bottling in the spring this is ripe and firm-fleshed wine which maintains a lemony freshness.
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Code: BU79251
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 2 - Dry
- Chardonnay
- 75cl
- Now to 2026
- 13.5% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, diam
Domaine Guillemot-Michel
This tiny biodynamic six-hectare estate, next to the village of Clessé in southern Burgundy, has been owned and run by Pierrette and Marc Guillemot since 1985. They took over from Pierrette’s parents, who had been selling their grapes to a local co-op, but this husband-and-wife team decided they wanted to make the wine themselves.
They were early adopters of biodynamics and used to run courses with renowned soil consultant Yves Herody. Lalou Bize-Leroy, Dominique Lafon and Julien Brocard all attended courses here.
Now the vineyards are managed by Marc (whose beard is so fantastic that he is known as ‘le grand barbu’) and he also helps in the winery, although it is Pierrette who oversees the winemaking. Both are trained oenologists. Since 2013 they have also been assisted by their daughter Sophie after she completed an agriculture and oenology degree at Montpellier, and has done some winemaking in Chile and Australia. She is interested in making distilled alcohols and has done a stage at Hennessy, and is now making some marc and fine from chardonnay pomace at the domaine.
They are all obsessive about quality – from the vines, which have been farmed sustainably and without herbicides and pesticides for many years, to the modern equipment used in the winery – and this clearly pays off in the finished wine.
The small vineyard is planted on the clay and limestone slopes between Mâcon and Tournus, and benefits from the Quintaine commune’s excellent microclimate, with high...
JancisRobinson.com
So rich! Something floral, as is usual for this producer. Sweet and gorgeous but not at all over-the-top sweet. 16/20
wine-pages.com
Read moreLow yields in this small biodynamic estate, the wine fermented in concrete tanks but kept on its lees until bottling in the spring. Definite leesy, nutty characters on the nose, but set against clear and...