2022 Jérôme Fornerot, Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Chardonnay  Burgundy, France

2022 Jérôme Fornerot, Hautes-Côtes de Beaune Chardonnay Burgundy, France

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Vineyard Area: The vines were planted on high elevation plots in Saint-Aubin in the 1980s.

Soil: There are two soils types: One on white clay-limestone soil, and the other on a thin layer of red soil on lava, which gives all the complexity to this wine according to Fornerot.

Elevation: 400-425 meters

Vinification: After being handpicked, the harvest is lightly crushed then pressed in a pneumatic press. The juice is then allowed to settle and placed by gravity in French oak barrels to ferment with indigenous yeasts.

Maturation: After aging in barrels for 10 months, the wine is placed in vat for a month and is bottled at the estate.

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