Marchand & Burch 'Villages' Chardonnay 2016 petit-chablis A touch of salmon-pink hue

A touch of salmon-pink hue shows its reddish skin grape origin

The vines (averaging only fifty years) are planted on terraces that nestle against the imposing limestone cliffs of Les Dentelles de Montmirail

blackberries and plum on the nose

on the rich soil of gravel and limestone

and finishes firm and fairly long

Marchand & Burch 'Villages' Chardonnay 2016 petit-chablis A touch of salmon-pink hueThis is an effortless wine with a touch of class. It lives up, you could say, to the Villages name and or history. It tastes of pear, preserved lemon, stonefruit and woodspice, suggestions of both ginger and cracked wheat lingering about the edges. It flows in an entirely sunny manner but then turns both textural and taut through the finish. Its quite irresistibly drinkable.