Roc Breia Chardonnay 2022
Regular price $268.00
Pickup available at The Heritage Wine Store & Bottle Shop
Usually ready in 1 hour
Roc Breia Chardonnay 2022
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The Heritage Wine Store & Bottle Shop
Pickup available, usually ready in 1 hour
129 Saint Georges Terrace
Brookfield Place
Perth WA 6000
Australia
- TASTING NOTE: “The 2022 Chardonnay has turned out beautifully, bursting with aromas of pear, white flowers, bread dough and hazelnuts, followed by a medium to full-bodied, fleshy palate with a satiny attack that segues into a charming, lively mid-palate, with good cut and a saline finish. Dancer sold off two-thirds of his crop in 2021, but the quality of his raw materials in 2022 should permit a less draconian selection.” 92 Points - William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
- ABOUT THE WINE:The village of Bray lies in the north of the Mâconnais. It’s the zone that also includes Cruzille and Verzé and is one of the cooler, later-ripening areas of the Mâconnais. The Roc Breïa vines face west, and it’s windy, so there is little disease pressure. The Chardonnay is drawn from vines planted in the mid-1940s and mid-’70s. In the cellar, the winemaking is simple. The Chardonnay is whole bunch-pressed, and the wine ferments in used 500-litre barrels. It’s bottled unfiltered, and the only sulphur added is at bottling: a tiny 20 mg/L. Instead of taking the Mâcon-Bray appellation, Dancer has chosen to label the wine Vin de France, so he has no restrictions regarding picking dates. As for the wine itself, forget any stereotype about Mâcon; this is a juicy, punchy white Burgundy, atypically fresh and racy for the region.
- ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Roc Breïa is run by the driven and ambitious Théo Dancer, now also the main man at Domaine Vincent Dancer. In 2021, Théo was invited to visit a mature vineyard in the Bray district of the Mâconnais. The vineyard had recently been purchased by two investors, one of whom was the courtier who used to sell the vineyard’s crop in the past. The vineyard (pictured above) is a 10-hectare block on a limestone slope. Dancer immediately saw the potential and agreed to manage the project, but only on the condition that he would control the whole affair. The name of the new project is Roc Breïa. Taking over immediately, with the help of full-time vigneron Bastien Cubillé, Dancer has begun to sculpt the vineyard up to his standards, bringing the soils and vines back into balance, planting cover crops and cultivating inter-vine, etc. In the cellar, winemaking is very simple. The wines are results from a selection of the finest barrels, with Dancer eliminating anything he doesn’t like from the final blend.
- COUNTRY: France
- REGION: Burgundy
- SUB-REGION: Macconais
- VARIETAL: Chardonnay
- WINE STYLE: White Wine
- WINEMAKER: Theo Dancer
- CLASSIFICATION: Minimal Intervention, Unfined & Unfiltered, Minimal Sulphites, Sustainable Farming, Vegan
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 13%
- SIZE: 750ml