Around 400 cases made, depending on the vintage. Generous and textured — ripe orchard fruit, hazelnut, a touch of brioche, and a round, fleshy mid-palate balanced by the limestone-driven acidity that keeps Mercurey Blanc honest through a long finish. Eco-responsibly farmed Chardonnay from 20 hectares above the ruins of the Château de Montaigu — one of the last bastions of the Dukes of Burgundy — vinified with Agnès Dewé de Launay's characteristic restraint and classicism: partial wood aging, no excess, nothing to obscure the place. At five years old and fully open, this is the bottle to open tonight. Neal Rosenthal import since 1979.
