Marc Colin et Fils Chassagne Montrachet Margot 2022 Old Rioja It's the kind of mountain

It's the kind of mountain white that wakes up shellfish and goat cheese without trying too hard

this starts with more than 10 years in American white oak bourbon barrels

5L will develop beautifully for years

though pricing has risen substantially over the last decade

The base wine was fermented with its native yeasts and after the second fermentation

Marc Colin et Fils Chassagne Montrachet Margot 2022 Old Rioja It's the kind of mountainMargot was the grandmother, and the Colin siblings named this cuvee for her. It is drawn from four parcels on the lower slopes of Chassagne Montrachet, vines averaging around thirty five years, on the clay and limestone that makes this village's whites so difficult to imitate anywhere else. New oak is kept to a minimum, roughly a fifth, and the wine finishes its education in tank, so the site does the talking rather than the barrel. This is white