Georges Descombes Beaujolais Blanc, 2022

Georges Descombes Beaujolais Blanc, 2022

Regular price $30.00

This wine is made of 100% Chardonnay. Crisp and refreshing flavors of mango, pear, and apple will enliven your palate and keep you thirsty. For pairings, we'd suggest a soft ripened triple crème cheese like Délice de Bourgogne or Nancy's Hudson Vally Camembert. If you're feeling a little more hungry, a grilled red snapper or roasted chicken thighs will do just fine. Georges Descombes is heralded as the unofficial fifth member of the iconic four Beaujolais producers (Lapierre, Thevenet, Breton, and Foillard), and owns vines in Brouilly, Regnie, Morgon, and others.

  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Organic
  • Medium Acid
  • Low Alcohol
  • Fruit Forward

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PAIRS well WITH

  • Soft Cheese
  • Fish
  • Poultry

Details

From our Importer: Located in Vermont, a tiny hamlet in
Villié-Morgon, Georges Descombes is the unofficial fifth member of the iconic "Gang of Four": Marcel Lapierre, Jean Foillard, Jean-Paul Thévenet and Guy Breton. In his teens, Georges worked with his vigneron father in the vines as well as a local bottling company. Hopping around from cellar to cellar gave him a chance to try a large amount of different estates, and the first time he tasted a Lapierre wine, young Georges was blown away by its purity and elegance. Then and there, he decided he would try to make wines like Marcel's.

Georges took over the estate in 1988 and immediately started shifting viticultural and oenological practices forward. Though his father had always worked traditionally in the vineyards and cellar, Georges decided to push things further by practicing organic viticulture (certified by Ecocert for many years, but now practicing without certification) and eliminating all entrants or manipulation during vinification. A minuscule dose of sulfur, less than a hundredth of what an organically certified vigneron is legally allowed to use, is added at bottling to help preserve the wines.

In total, Georges owns about 15,5 hectares of land spread over five AOC's : 7,5 hectares in Morgon, 3,5 hectares in
Brouilly, 2 hectares in Regnié, 0,5 hectare in Chiroubles and 2 hectares of Beaujolais-Villages.

Grapes are hand-harvested, then stored in a temperature controlled container before being placed in 60hl cement
tanks. A traditional, semi-carbonic maceration occurs, and the wine ferments from its ambient yeasts. For each Cru, Georges produces old vine cuvées which are vinified separately, then aged in barrel six months before bottling.

Georges is a firm believer that his wines benefit from time in bottle, and always releases them up to a year later than most of his colleagues, particularly the old vine releases.

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