Joseph Drouhin Saint Veran 2018

Saint-Veran in the Maconnais region of southern Burgundy is the source of delicious Chardonnays laced with Burgundy’s inimitable limestone soil signature. In the ripe, yet fresh and aromatic 2018 vintage, Drouhin has fashioned another immediately enjoyable, soil-driven white Burgundy from this under-heralded region wedged between Pouilly-Fuisse and Beaujolais. Drouhin’s 2018 Saint-Veran sports a lovely lemon-gold color in the glass followed by aromas of gunflint, honeysuckle, apple blossoms, and salted lemon. On the palate, Drouhin’s mouth-filling Saint-Veran is packed with delicious suggestions of raw hazelnuts, buttery lemon curd, and white flowers vivified by crisp acidity and a vibrant undercurrent of saline oyster shell minerality. Reprises of honeysuckle blossoms and flinty minerals mark the wine’s long, lip-smacking finish. Enjoy this lovely, authentic, reasonably-priced white Burgundy now and over the coming three years with salmon, pork, roast chicken, duck, boudin blanc, and light pork dishes.