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The Society's White Burgundy 2021

White Wine from France - Burgundy

31 Reviews

'The quality is brilliant' said Director of Wine Pierre Mansour, and this clean, precise, stone-fruited white sailed through as a Wine Champion in our tastings. With lovely texture and balance atop a vibrant palate, this is benchmark Mâcon-Villages.

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Code: BU82501

Wine characteristics

White Wine
2 - Dry
Chardonnay
75cl
13% Alcohol
no oak influence
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Vegetarian
Vegan

100ml of this wine contains 77 kcal
The bottle contains 9.8 units of alcohol
A 125ml glass of this wine contains 96 kcal and 1.6 units of alcohol

The UK Chief Medical Officers recommend adults do not regularly drink more than 14 units per week. For information and support on responsible drinking please see www.drinkaware.co.uk. For more information about how calories in wine are measured, click here.

We knew that a frost-hit vintage in Burgundy would have implications for our most popular white wine, so took steps early on to mitigate the inevitable shortage and to source alternatives.

Recognising that the inevitable price increase would put our Society’s White Burgundy out of the reach of some members’ pockets, we decided to look for some suitable alternatives. We wanted to be able to offer members some other chardonnays which reflect the flavour and style of our White Burgundy.

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Les Vins Aujoux

This is the source of the bulk of our Beaujolais for the last 50 years, and many members will also have tried the fruits of The Society’s work with this excellent Beaujolais-based négoce in the form of our bestselling white wine, The Society’s White Burgundy, sourced from the Mâcon.

Dealing with a négociant allows The Wine Society to pick and choose, often blending together from different estates in order to end up with a wine that is better than any of its parts.

Négoces have had a huge part to play in the recent history of Beaujolais, some of it not so good but some of it very positive. For all its apparent simplicity, Beaujolais is a complicated region that is often the victim of its own capricious climate with late frosts and violent hailstorms a common recurrence.

The one name that stands out for us is Dépagneux: Jean Dépagneux was the last of this illustrious merchant family who, with his partners, bought up a list of ailing names such as Aujoux, which had made its name selling Beaujolais to the once profitable Swiss market. Jean retired about a dozen years ago and his place was taken by a young and talented oenologist from Viré called Jean-Marc Darbon. One consequence of the change has been the meteoric rise in the quality of The Society’s White Burgundy.

Since 2002 Les Vins Aujoux have operated an office in the Languedoc-Roussillon in the deep south of France, sourcing a range of wines.