Let’s talk a little about the wine of the week:
Bouchard Père & Fils
Pouilly Fuisse 2013
This white wine is made exclusively from the Chardonnay grape, in the region of Burgundy from Maconnais.
It is a super wine of golden yellow colour with green reflections, clean and bright, with rich aromas and flavors of peaches, almonds and honey surrounded by mineral notes. After fermentation it goes through malolactic fermentation and has a light aging in oak barrels.
The House Bouchard Père et Fils, created in 1731, after 300 years has allowed her to form the larger Burgundy vineyard and one of the most recognized around the world. In 1810 they buy Beaune Castle and transformed the bastions into an aging cellar, being the emblem castle of the region. The soils are clayey – calcareous on beds of cracked rocks.
The Maconnais is a district located in the South of Burgundy and the landscape is dominated by the cliffs of Solutré and Vergisson.
The place takes its name from the town of Mâcon. It is a district of green valleys where they cultivate grapes Chardonnay, base of the white wines of the region. Wines are called Macon or Macon-Villages, but the best wines, called Cru, are the Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Loché and Pouilly-Vinzelles and Saint Véran. Of all these wines, the star is the Pouilly-Fuissé.
In this site was founded the Abbey of Cluny, the mayor and richest of the monastic institutions of the middle ages, belonging to the rule of Saint Benedict, which is to the Benedictines. It was founded in the year 909 by Guillermo I of Aquitaine, count of Auvergne.
At Cluny monks were released of the physical work. The works were carried out by subordinates hired. The Cistercian order is separated from Cluny to Xl late to return to the principles of austerity of Saint Benedict, in particular to recover the physical work. The first Abbey of Cistercian near Dijon is founded, in the heart of Burgundy. In its cellars wine was kept for the Kings, the feudal lords and the Popes.
The great abbeys controlled land, wine, its distribution and its image. The heads of the monastic cellars watched vineyards, vintages, wine-making and parenting. This attitude of selection of the best grounds, the observation of the adaptation of the vine with its surroundings, the patience to understand its evolution over the years and the obsessive search for expression of the Earth and of the quality, is what makes the world leader in the production of wine of Burgundy.
The wine of the week