Montagny
2020
Founded in 1825, Domaine Faiveley is one of Burgundy's greatest domaines. Originally the company was a classic negotiant business, based in Nuits St. Georges and engaged in the buying and selling of wine but not the production of it. After seven generations of steadily acquiring properties throughout the Cotes de Nuits, the Cotes de Beaune, Cotes Chalonnaise and now Chablis, the Faiveley family have established themselves as the most important vineyard owners in Burgundy, with 125 hectares of...
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Bottled with technical corks, the 2020 Montagny offers up scents of crisp white peach, spring flowers, freshly baked bread and honeysuckle. Medium to full-bodied, lively and layered, it's unusually chiseled and concentrated this year, standing out as the best communal Montagny I've ever tasted from Faiveley.
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Inviting aromas of white flowers and spices, with just a hint of apple. Supple and vinous, offering a tactile texture for this wine from 30-year-old vines planted on white marl soil that's similar in composition to that of Corton-Charlemagne. Finishes saline and firm.
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