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“STUNNING Domestic DRC, crafted by Bertrand de Villane of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti fame!
STUNNING Domestic DRC, crafted by Bertrand de Villane of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti fame!
Bertrand likes to say, “If your Chardonnay is excellent, everything else follows.” And his Chardonnay sure is excellent!
Bertrand de Villaine of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti (aka, DRC) quietly produced this clandestine "Composition" Chardonnay, alongside his Oregon Pinot Noir. A premium, well-balanced Chard. Buttery and complex with light toast and oak.
The fruit was harvested cold and pressed gently over 2 hours; the “Coeur” or heart of the press and the other press fraction were separate to be fermented. We used 40% new oak from carefully selected barrels from a small Burgundian Cooper Tonnellerie Plantagnêt premium light toast. The wine is fermented in barrels for both alcoholic and malolactic, completed naturally with no additives. The wine aged for ten months in barrels and then transferred gently to a tank in which it will stay until bottling. The 2021 Composition Chardonnay was bottled the first week of September 2022.
