2022 POUILLY FUISSÉ Madrigal Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau, Lea & Sandeman

POUILLY FUISSÉ

2022 Madrigal Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Mâconnais
Village Pouilly Fuissé
ABV 13%

This is always the final wine when tasting here in the cellar - and it is a great finale once again in 2022. Slightly more restrained and mineral. Really beautiful nose, pure and elegant, with great energy. More on the limey, mandarin register, with a touch of more exotic pineapple fruit, but with lovely finesse and length. Bit more richness on the palate, but tightly wound like a coil. Salty and delicious. A triumph, this is just delicious white Burgundy.
From 2 plots perched high up in Vergisson at 350m both planted at the end of the 60s. For Frantz this is where he always finds great acidity and the best best tension in the wines, but Madrigal always needs more time and are best after 6 years or so. No new wood here but all newish - between 1 and 4 years old. Drinking range: 2024 - 2030 L&S (Nov 2023)


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The 2022 Pouilly-Fuissé Madrigal is a selection of barrels from the best parcels that show more austerity and reduction since this cuvée his designed to be aged in bottle. It also has a longer elevage of 16 to 18 months, the first 12 months in barrel. Deeper yellow fruit on the nose, nectarine and a touch of wild peach, a little dried honey and lanolin that comes through with aeration. The palate has superb density, fine grip, almost Meursault-like with the 20% new oak binding the finish together. Give this 18-24 months in bottle before broaching. Great promise. Drinking range: 2026 - 2042 Rating: 93 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jun 2024)

Madrigal is sourced from the domaine’s best two plots, En Carementrant and Le Sabotier. Compared to Pastoral, Madrigal is a little fuller, with a little more oak, filling out the palate rather more: you can see the full Pouilly-Fuissé experience here. The oak is present but in balance, the fruit is very appetising with a crystalline finish, and the further back on the palate it goes, the less sucrosity and more the definition of the Vergisson hillside style of Pouilly-Fuissé. Drinking range: 2026 - 2030 Rating: **** Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Mar 2024)

More obviously oaky on the nose than the St-Vérans just tasted. Ripe pear and citrus and really creamy with a touch of spice. Generous and zingy fruit, full and fresh in the mouth. A substantial wine with a long fresh finish. GV (JH) Drinking range: 2026 - 2032 Rating: 17 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Feb 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.

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