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Maison Valette, Macon Chaintre Vieilles Vignes Blanc, NV

White Wine from Burgundy, France
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This is Mâcon from one of the godfathers of natural winemaking in the region: old-vine Chardonnay, farmed organically, picked by hand and bottled without fining or filtration. Philippe Valette comes by his independent streak honestly. His father was the first grower in the area to stop selling his grapes to the co-op and bottle his own domaine wine. When Philippe finished wine school in 1990, he converted the family vineyards to organic farming. The old vines for this bottle grow in clay-limestone near Chaintré, a small village at the southern edge of Burgundy where the Mâcon meets Beaujolais. Across the estate, grapes are pressed directly, fermented with native yeasts and aged in old oak. If you think of the Mâcon as a source of simple everyday Chardonnay, this bottle makes a strong case otherwise, and it does so without asking for Côte d'Or money.

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More about Maison Valette

If you think Mâconnais Chardonnay is simple, early-drinking stuff, the Valettes of Chaintré will change your mind. Their whites spend two, three, sometimes many more years on their lees in old barrels before release, and they come out rich, layered and still full of tension. This is the Mâcon made with the patience of a great Meursault.

Chaintré sits at the southern tip of Burgundy, where the Mâconnais meets Beaujolais. The family has worked here for three generations. Gérard Valette left the local co-op in 1977 to bottle his own wine, one of the first growers in the area to do so, and his son Philippe, who finished wine school in 1990, began converting the clay-limestone vineyards (roughly eight and a half hectares, all Chardonnay) to organic farming.

Harvest is by hand, often late, and fermentations use native yeasts, with little or no added sulfur and no fining. Wines can be multi-vintage blends marked with tiny lot numbers rather than a single year. Some bottlings are simply too unusual for the rulebook: the appellation tasting panel once rejected the Et Pourtant cuvée as "too atypical," so it's sold as Vin de France. The range runs from Mâcon-Villages and Mâcon-Chaintré Vieilles Vignes up to the Pouilly-Fuissé clos, Clos Reyssié and Clos de Monsieur Noly.

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Bresse chicken in a cream-and-morel sauce, trout meunière, seared scallops with brown butter, gougères, or a wedge of aged Comté.

Tasting Profile

Dry, medium-bodied Chardonnay. Expect yellow apple, pear and citrus, with a chalky, mineral edge. Fresh acidity keeps it lively, and the finish is clean with a savory note.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Chardonnay

  • Vintage

    NV

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Biodynamic

  • Style

    Elegant

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

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