Burgundy, France
Drouhin’s Bourgogne Blanc – sourced from select vineyards throughout the Bourgogne viticole – is the entrée to the Maison’s impeccable white wine portfolio. Like all Drouhin’s wines, this affordable offering effortlessly captures Burgundy’s inimitable clay and limestone minerality alongside a crisp expression of lemony Chardonnay fruit. A brilliant green-tinged lemon-gold color in the glass, Drouhin’s 2020 Bourgogne Blanc opens with elegant, classic white Burgundy aromas of raw hazelnuts, gardenia blossoms, Comice pears, lemon curd, and clay-limestone minerality. Deft and gracious on the palate, the Bourgogne Blanc gives us an early glimpse to the excellence of the 2020 white Burgundy vintage. Persistent limestone minerality infuses suggestions of yellow apple flesh, raw almonds, and preserved lemons. Crisp, focused, and delicious, the wine finishes with reprises of juicy Meyer lemons, sappy hazelnuts, white flowers, and a final wave of limestone minerals. It will also make a wonderful complement now and over the coming three years for roast chicken, broiled salmon, light pork preparations, roasted chicken, halibut, snapper, and potato-rich vegetarian fare.
A January 2022 newsletter selection
