Vignerons Réunis de Buxy Cuvée Réserve Bourgogne Chardonnay 2023

Vignerons Réunis de Buxy Cuvée Réserve Bourgogne Chardonnay 2023

Wine Club featured in Premier Series - 2 Whites

Price:

$21.00

Country:

France

Wine vintage:

2023

Grape varietals:

Chardonnay

Serving Temperature:

40°-45° F

Quantity:
Shipping Costs & Discount Info

The delight in drinking the classic, well-made 2023 Vignerons Réunis de Buxy Cuvée Réserve Bourgogne Chardonnay lies in the winery’s rendering of Chardonnay’s pure natural flavors, not in the preponderance of “butter” or new oak. True to form, the 2023 Cuvée Réserve Bourgogne Chardonnay offers elegance, finesse, purity, and subtlety of flavor as well as plenty of good cheer and thirst quenching drinkability. With a brilliant in hue, a glint of afternoon sunshine, and a pleasing bouquet of acacia, spring flowers, citrus, and freshly picked summer apples, there is everything to like about this wine. In the mouth the wine’s bouquet re-emerges, offering unadulterated Chardonnay fruit, superb texture, and a refreshing mineral-driven finish. Once again, the Vignerons Réunis de Buxy have fashioned a crowd pleasing Bourgogne Chardonnay that drinks beautifully from start to finish. For optimal enjoyment, we suggest only moderate chilling (40º-45º F) in order to capture all of this Chardonnay’s subtleties and complexity. Anticipated maturity: 2025-2027. Enjoy!

Although hors d’oeuvres and light starters offer excellent accompaniments to the 2023 Vignerons Réunis de Buxy Cuvée Réserve Bourgogne Chardonnay, shellfish and the fruits of the sea provide a feast of mouthwatering accompaniments. Sautéed scallops, grilled shrimp, and roasted oysters make superb partners to this wine, as do mussels sautéed in a cream sauce infused with saffron. Baked, grilled, poached or sautéed flounder, sole, or sea bass pair beautifully with this elegant white wine, too. And, for those who eschew the fruits of the sea, there is Chicken Fricassee, Pasta Primavera, and salads. However, the glory of any good Bourgogne Chardonnay remains its ability to shine unadorned, which makes the 2023 Vignerons Réunis de Buxy Chardonnay a superlative aperitif. As you like it, but before you know it, the wine will vanish sip by sip so you will almost certainly want to have another bottle on ice. Bon appétit!

Vignerons Réunis de Buxy continues to push the envelope on quality by fashioning several classic high value white Burgundies. We discovered this tiny gem of a cooperative more than a decade ago and continue to be impressed by the consistent quality and value that this superbly run winery has to offer. Whether it is the winery’s excellent Premier Cru Montagny or Cuvée Réserve Bourgogne Chardonnay, the thirty growers of the Vignerons Réunis de Buxy fashion white wines that are well worth seeking out. This month’s feature, the 2023 Cuvée Réserve Bourgogne Chardonnay, emanates from the growers’ vineyards surrounding the tiny Burgundian village of Buxy on the Côte Chalonnaise in southern Burgundy.

The Côte Chalonnaise is the least known of Burgundy’s wine regions, but this sequestered set of low hills and tiny villages has begun to garner considerable attention. Increasingly, the Côte Chalonnaise is becoming the source of many unexpected pleasures and a veritable treasure trove of beautiful wines at affordable prices. Situated to the east of the sleepy little town of Chalon-sur-Saône from which the region inherits its name, the Côte Chalonnaise is for all intents and purposes a continuation of the fabled Côte de Beaune that lies just to the north.

As in all of Burgundy, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir comprise the predominant grape varieties on the Côte Chalonnaise, with allowance made for small amounts of Pinot Blanc for the region’s white wines and Pinot Liebault and Pinot Beurot for its reds. The latter two Pinots are nearly identical to Pinot Noir. Four important communes dominate the region: Givry, Mercurey, Montagny, and Rully – all bona fide Burgundy appellations in their own right. In Givry and Mercurey, the emphasis is on the production of good to excellent red wines, as Pinot Noir reigns supreme in their vineyards. Meanwhile, Rully and Montagny specialize in fashioning delicious, easy to drink white Burgundies from Chardonnay grapes. The tiny town of Buxy is part of the Montagny appellation, which in recent years has begun to fashion wines that compete with many of the more renowned white Burgundies of the Côte de Beaune, where wines of comparable quality cost two and three times the price. The wines of the Côte Chalonnaise that are grown just outside the boundaries of the four major communes or exceed the legal production for their respective communes are sold as Bourgogne Blanc (Chardonnay) and Bourgogne Rouge, and they constitute some of the region’s best values and unexpected pleasures. Enjoy!

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