it's a more elegant Valbuena than I anticipated
with its mouthwatering salinity and prettier red strawberry-noted perfume lasting on the finish
The 2019 Valbuena was produced with a blend of Tinto Fino with 3% Merlot
This wine is hand crafted at every stage of its elaboration and reveals remarkable finesse and complexity and a golden colour reminiscent of the sun that made it possible
the 2021 Chardonnay Seven Springs Vineyard offers a very nice reductive profile
Domaine Sylvain Pataille Marsannay 'Chardonnay Rose', Cote de Nuits, France 2021 Nebbiolo it's a more elegant ValbuenaSylvain Pataille is one of the new breed of winemakers who first achieved the highest level of technical training before beginning to craft his own wines. A highly regarded consulting oenologist, who still advises over 15 Burgundy domaines, Pataille has in very short order built up (mostly en fermage) a domaine of some 15 hectares, all in Marsannay, the northernmost, and most recent (1987) AOC of the Cte de Nuits. Chardonnay Rose is a genetic mutation