MÂCON VILLAGES

2022 Clos Saint Pancras Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau

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Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Mâconnais
Village Mâcon Villages
ABV 13%
Vineyard Clos Saint Pancras

The 2022 Mâcon-Villages Clos Saint-Pancras, which had just been bottled, comes from 3.55 hectares of east-facing vines on soils akin to Clessé. Matured in foudres for nine months with SO2 added after malo and before bottling. It has a very elegant and precise bouquet, which offers subtle leesy scents. The palate is underpinned by a fine line of acidity, concentrated yet tensile, with fresh pear and lemon thyme notes on the finish. As good a Mâcon-Villages, you will find any year. Drinking range: 2023 - 2030 Rating: 91 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jun 2023)

*Case price discount: Mix any 12 bottles of wine (or 9 litre equivalent) or 6 bottles of Champagne, Spirits, Sweet Wine or Fortified (4.5 litres) to get the discounted 'case price' for each bottle.

Aged entirely in large foudres. Such a fresh nose. Juicy and inviting, lemon and lime and a touch of flowers and blossom. Palate is bright and fresh and full of expressive juicy fruit - all hard white stone fruit flesh. Very balanced, pure with lively energy. L&S (Nov 2023)

The 2022 Mâcon-Villages Clos Saint-Pancras, which I tasted last year just after bottling, has a bright nose with green apple, citrus peel and a light hint of sea spray. The palate is just as good as it was last year with plenty of energy, a little spicier perhaps with a mouth salivating finish. Excellent. Drinking range: 2024 - 2030 Rating: 91 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jun 2024)

First to be picked after the crémant. Raised in foudre to bottle in July. Pale colour with a really beautiful and elegant floral bouquet. Middleweight, some grapefruit, fresh apple, medium length, very nice indeed. Drink from 2024-2026. Tasted: March 2024. Drinking range: 2024 - 2026 Rating: **** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Mar 2024)

Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau

Frantz Chagnoleau and his wife Caroline Gon, who was until 2022 also the winemaker at the Comte Lafon Mâcon operation, are rising stars of the Mâconnais. Together they have a small domaine consisting of 3.5 hectares of Mâcon in a single block in Saint Albain, and several small plots in Viré Clessé, Saint Véran and Pouilly Fuissé, making up 6.8 hectares in total. All the vineyards are organically farmed (Ecocert certified).

Great care is taken at harvest to pick at the optimum moment for sugars, acidity and aromatic precursors, and they will stop the picking between parcels if they think that the ripening is not even across the whole domaine. Grapes are manually picked into 25kg cases, so as to get whole, undamaged grapes to the winery. After careful pressing, a very non-interventionist vinification takes place with natural yeasts in oak foudres.

The wines are kept on the lees to preserve freshness until the beginning of summer, when they are racked and lightly filtered, before bottling before the next harvest, except for some of the top wines which are aged for another six months in tank in order to develop fully. The wines are in a style which is bright and incisive, expressive and pure - and well worth seeking out.

Macon Villages Le Clos Saint Pancras : 3.55 ha
These vines were planted in 2000. Frantz uses a little bit of new wood - 10%. Élevage in demi-muids. This is the most northerly plot he works and it is high (350m) - facing east and made up of mineral, stony soil.
Viré Clessé Les Raspillères : 0.73 ha
Planted in 2005. A 30% slope and poor soil, thin at the top. Originally planted with Gamay, it was abandoned after phylloxera, then brought back from being scrubland by a forester who was passionate about wine and who realised it had once been a vineyard.
St Véran Prélude : 2.3 ha
Poor, calcareous soils. 15% new wood in demi-muids (500l barrels). 45 year old vines in several plots - the earliest ripening.
St Véran la Roche : 0.42 ha
70 year old vines at 200m in Chasselas, on marl, in mid-slope. Some is aged in demi-muids, but mostly it's in barrel with 10% new wood.
St Véran à La Côte : 0.25 ha
The highest vineyard of the domaine at 400m, on red earth, in Chasselas. Aged in demi-muids with no new wood.
St Véran La Fournaise : 0.21ha
All aged in demi-muids with no new wood. The whitest and most mineral soil they have.
Pouilly Fuissé Pastoral : 0.45 ha
Pouilly Fuissé Madrigal : 0.25 ha
From Vergisson, (mostly 'en Carmentrant') and all aged in barrel, but no new wood even if some are recent.

IWC Celebratory Mixed Case

At the Retail Awards for the International Wine Challenge, we were thrilled to bring home the prizes for the London Regional Retailer of the Year, Small Multiple Site Retailer of the Year and Sparkling Retailer of the Year.

To mark this trio of awards, we tasked founder Charles Lea with selecting half a dozen wines, that typify the L&S approach to wine and are worthy of a celebration. We've included two of each in our special mixed case - as a thank you to all of our customers for your continued support, we've knocked a little extra off our usual case price too.

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