{"product_id":"marc-colin-bourgogne-chardonnay-2024","title":"Marc Colin Bourgogne Chardonnay 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBourgogne Blanc is Burgundy's humblest white category on paper, but the source here is anything but humble. This wine is drawn from parcels on the edges of Chassagne-Montrachet, along with fruit from Puligny-Montrachet and remnants of the domaine's many Saint-Aubin plots. In other words, it is regional-level Burgundy grown on the same slopes and the same clay-limestone soils as wines that carry far grander names, just from vineyards that sit a step outside the village boundaries or feed the estate's entry cuvée. The vines were planted in 1972 and 1998, old enough to give the wine real depth for its category.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e100% Chardonnay from the heart of the Côte de Beaune. Whole-cluster pressed, fermented on native yeasts, and aged around ten months in neutral oak barrels, so there is texture from the lees but no oak flavor layered on top. Expect white peach, lemon, green apple, a little almond, and white flowers, with a clean, bright, medium-bodied palate and a saline, mineral finish that gives away its pedigree. This overdelivers for a Bourgogne Blanc. The 2024 vintage was small and difficult across Burgundy, with mildew pressure and low yields, but the fruit that came through made fresh, energetic whites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe People\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarc Colin founded this domaine in 1970 in the village of Saint-Aubin, building on vines inherited from the Colin and Ponavoy families, some held for more than a century, and his father Pierre had planted in Puligny back in 1946. Today it is run by two of Marc's children, Damien in the cellar and Caroline on the business side, still with their father close at hand, while two other Colin sons, Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey and Joseph, left to found their own well-known labels. The domaine farms sustainably by lutte raisonnée and harvests everything by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFood Pairing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the everyday white Burgundy to keep on hand. Pour it with roast chicken, with grilled fish or shrimp, with a quiche or a cheese omelet, or with a simple pasta in cream and lemon. It works as an aperitif and with a wedge of Comté. Serve it well-chilled. The kind of bottle that makes a Tuesday dinner taste like you tried harder than you did.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Old World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50540819775711,"sku":null,"price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/P7080650.jpg?v=1783568320","url":"https:\/\/denverwinemerchant.com\/products\/marc-colin-bourgogne-chardonnay-2024","provider":"Denver Wine Merchant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}