2019 Domaine Baron Thenard Montrachet Grand Cru, Cote de Beaune, France Vincent Paris 2018 Hope Well Estate Chardonnay

2018 Hope Well Estate Chardonnay Eola-Amity Hills

notes of salty seaweed

High-character bouquet full of wild red berries and resinous herbs

very windy

spontaneous-fermentation with indigenous yeasts only

2019 Domaine Baron Thenard Montrachet Grand Cru, Cote de Beaune, France Vincent Paris 2018 Hope Well Estate ChardonnayJean Baptiste Bordeaux Montrieux has been running the domaine from the 1980's and the wines have always been made in a very traditional method: fermented in wood tonneau barrels for two weeks, punched down by foot twice a day, then aged in barrel for twelve to eighteen months (five percent new oak on the premier crus), and only very lightly filtered if necessary. The whites are fermented and aged in barrel. Fermentations start spontaneously and go at