Wine Country: FranceWine Subregion: BurgundyWine Sub-subregion: MaconnaisWine Varietal: Chardonnay

What do you do when your spouse insists on drinking great White Burgundy but you’re too cheap to spend an arm and a leg to keep peace in the family? The obvious answer is to buy a good Macon Village and simply lie about the price. With a wine like the...

PRIMA Notes:  Farming sustainably, with a push toward organic viticulture in the offing, his Chardonnay vineyards, ranging in age from 5 years to 80, thrive in the clay and limestone soil of the Maconnais, extracting great minerality and structure...

We hadn’t heard of this very small property either until we were presented the wine this morning. New to us or not, what was in the bottle really impressed even the most hard-boiled of this lot of truly spoiled wine merchants! Coming from a high...

Winery Notes:   To the eye: Pale yellow color, bright and clear On the nose: Complex yellow and floral fruits. Palate: Fruit with white flesh, round and full. This wine can be enjoyed as an aperitif as well as at the table with foie gras, fish,...

Importer's Notes:  Considered one of the finest winemakers in France, Dominique Lafon produces some of the most coveted white Burgundies. He strongly believes in the potential in Maconnais where he has been making terroir-driven wines since 1999...

We are big fans of this small, family-owned domaine, nestled in the hills of the Macon region of southern Burgundy, in the notable village of Pierreclos.  Domaine Coteaux des Margot is owned by Jean-Luc Durossay, and their wines are imported and...

  Like the Côte d’Or, the Maconnais was blessed with near ideal conditions in 2023. Yields, for the first time in a while, were higher than normal and that provided ample counter weight to q warm growing season. The resulting wines...