Domaine Louis Claude Desvignes Sans Bois ni Loi Beaujolais Blanc 2020 Ready Now

The Desvignes Beaujolais Blanc was tasted at a Beaujolais dinner. It was served icy cold at first and came up as it warmed up. The flavours were of damp grass, apples and fermentation esters. The palate felt generous in the mouth but had a chalky, dry, zesty finish. Desvignes Beaujolais Blanc is almost like drinking Champagne base material. Desvignes is a lovely Chardonnay that would happily replace a bottle of Chablis at the table (although it tastes distinctly different from Chablis). It is drinking perfectly now and paired in a lovely way with scallops prepared in the style of veal saltimbocca. Claude-Emmanuelle and Louis-Benoît are the eighth generation Desvignes to work this land. They ushered in 100% estate bottling and organic tending to their vineyards. Their 14 hectares include the amazing sites of Cote du Py, Javernieres and Corcelette in Morgon. The Desvignes style is for later picked grapes and traditional winemaking to ensure the wines live a long time. Domaine Louis Claude Desvignes Beaujolais Blanc 2020Winery Notes “100% Chardonnay. Brother-sister team Claude Emmanuelle and Louis Benoît Desvignes have made the first white wine in the eight generations of the domaine. The vines are in the same vineyard as the Gamay for their also-new-in-2020 "L'Aube à Javernières". The 0.26-hectare plot of Chardonnay is on the same deep clay as the red, just outside the Morgon appellation on the edge of the Javernières lieu-dit below the Côte du Py hill. The farming is certified-organic and the harvest by hand. The clusters were left mainly whole, with 20% of them destemmed, and put through a long, gentle press. The wine was aged in concrete eggs for 7 months and bottled with a light, non-sterile filtration."