Domaine Pignier, Chardonnay de la Reculee, 2023 moving_liquidation Perfect with roast meats

Perfect with roast meats

without any overt oak

drawn from a single Cumières terroir

aged in concrete and old oak

Rioja rosado once meant something deep and old-fashioned

Domaine Pignier, Chardonnay de la Reculee, 2023 moving_liquidation Perfect with roast meatsThe Jura's reculees are blind valleys carved into the same Jurassic shelf that gave the region its name, and Pignier calls this Chardonnay after one. The estate traces back to 13th century Carthusian monks and still ages its wines in their cold stone cellars, but the farming is thoroughly modern minded: biodynamic, certified by both Demeter and Ecocert, with the family preparing their own treatments. This is a topped up, non oxidative Chardonnay