What is better Puligny-Montrachet or Chassagne-Montrachet?

Chassagne tends to be weightier, perhaps more rounded, and stronger in overt fruit characteristics; Puligny is more tight and floral, with a pronounced acidity and minerality.

What type of wine is Puligny-Montrachet?

Puligny-Montrachet, along with Chassagne, is the most perfect expression of the Chardonnay grape. The appellation was created in 1937 on soils separated by only a few metres from the Grands Crus. The white wines have well-defined personalities and an established reputation.

What does a bottle of Montrachet cost?

Montrachet wines are all of the white variety, made from 100% Chardonnay grapes. The region produces some of the world’s best Chardonnay wines. These dry white wines are noted for their richness and structure, and a bottle can cost from $170 to $2900 dollars, with rarer vintages priced even higher.

How long are Puligny-Montrachet are good for?

Village level Puligny-Montrachet from top growers can be very good indeed, but is all too often unexciting and disappointing. Grands Crus normally need at least eight years before they can be broached, and last for 20 or more.

Is Puligny-Montrachet a white Burgundy?

Puligny-Montrachet may be used for red wine and white with Pinot noir and Chardonnay as the main grape variety. However, almost only white Puligny-Montrachet is produced, at around 99.5% of the total production.

Is Puligny-Montrachet A Grand Cru?

The four Grand Cru vineyards within Puligny-Montrachet, with Montrachet the highest-rated, are in addition to the appellation’s 17 Premier Cru vineyards The Grand Cru vineyards are situated in the southern part of Puligny-Montrachet, on the border with Chassagne-Montrachet.

How do you serve a Puligny-Montrachet?

Serving temperature: 11 to 13°C. Red: its opulent and fleshy structure will lend lusciousness and fullness to veal, pork, and roast fowl, as well as to hard cheeses like Comté. Serving temperature: 14 to 16°C. Puligny-Montrachet, along with Chassagne, is the most perfect expression of the Chardonnay grape.

Is Puligny-Montrachet red or white?

The red wine of Puligny-Montrachet appellation has bright ruby when young, darkening with age. Its bouquet is divided between small red fruits (raspberry gooseberry) and black fruits (blackcurrant and blackberry), later shifting towards leather, musk, and fur.

Is Puligny-Montrachet oaked?

The style of white Puligny-Montrachet is often very mineral, with a more restrained oak character compared to the white wines of some of the other Côte de Beaune villages, and tends to be described as “elegant” rather than fruit-driven, although some aspects of the style (such as the level of fruitiness) varies …

What food goes with Puligny-Montrachet?

Best Food to Pair with White Puligny – Montrachet :

• Almond Trout.
• American Plaice.
• Apple Stuffed White or Oatmeal Pudding.
• Arctic Charr.
• Arctic Charr Fillets.
• Asian Style Chicken Salad.
• Asian Style Salad.

Is Pouilly Fuisse a white Burgundy?

Pouilly-Fuissé is the most distinguished wine appellation in the Mâconnais, making rich, full-bodied white Burgundy from Chardonnay in four communes: Chaintré, Fuissé, Solutré-Pouilly and Vergisson.

Which is better Pouilly-Fumé or Pouilly-Fuissé?

Pouilly Fumé is lighter in alcohol and more acidic, while Pouilly Fuissé has a lot of body.

What wine is similar to Pouilly-Fuissé?

Pouilly-Fuissé is an appellation in France’s Burgundy region. Chardonnay is the only grape grown there, so the California equivalent would be a Chardonnay.