Domaine de Montille Beaune 1er Cru Les Aigrots 2022
£55.95
The wine
Expressive grapefruit and yellow apple on the nose with warming pastry and vanilla. The palate delivers concentrated fruit that echoes the nose, balanced by energetic acidity and a distinctive saline minerality.
Les Aigrots faces south-east at the southern end of the Beaune premiers crus, and it gives a generous, accessible wine that opens early rather than demanding years in the cellar. Hand harvested and sorted twice, lightly pressed, then taken through both alcoholic and malolactic fermentation in barrel. Approachable Burgundy of real quality is rarer than it should be.
The producer
Domaine de Montille
View all Domaine de Montille winesIn the village of Volnay, on the Côte de Beaune, Domaine de Montille is one of Burgundy most revered names. Built over generations by the de Montille family, and now led by Étienne de Montille, the estate is famed for reds and whites of rare precision. Its holdings read like a roll-call of Burgundy finest sites.
The domaine farms biodynamically, with a purist devotion to terroir and restraint. Whole-bunch fermentation and measured oak give reds of structure and perfume, while the whites are taut and mineral. The style is classical, ageworthy, and utterly distinctive.
The range spans the Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits, from village wines to a peerless collection of premier and grand crus. Each bottling traces the character of its vineyard with quiet authority.
To pour a de Montille wine is to taste Burgundy at its most refined and honest. Elegant, structured, and profoundly ageworthy, these are wines for the serious cellar.
