Chateau Simone Palette Blanc 2023

Chateau Simone Palette Blanc 2023The white from Simone is a truly unique creation based primarily on Clairette that is supplemented with Grenache Blanc, Bourboulenc, Ugni Blanc and a touch of Muscat Blanc. The white, brisk in its youth, animated by a bouquet of pine resin, evolves slowly into a sensual masterpiece with its lingering finish built on a mass of minerality. This is a remarkably age worthy wine with the potential to give ever more pleasure over a span two decades or more.

It is situated at the top of the Combe de Lavaux in the northern tier of Gevrey Chambertin in a zone that is slightly colder in climate

that being said

Just as his friend Guillaume Gilles stepped outside his home zone in recent years to bottle a Gamay

Atlante’s pure Listán Negro bottling comes from a vineyard known as La Quinta

savory tannins

Regis previously sold off the fruit from these sites in bulk each year

It was done in what could be called his "semi-voile" style

including Negrara

buttressed by a lurking sense of power

Mature and contemplative

and Francois owns a fifth of a hectare of Chardonnay in the steep Santenots-Blanc climat

Comprised of 80% Pinot Blanc and 20% Chardonnay