Monkeyshed Wines

Grapes: Chardonnay
Each: £12.45

Deux Roches has been there or there abouts for every wine list I have put together since starting my wine life in the UK in 1992. The key, as ever, is a commitment to quality and addressing each individual parcel and vintage as conditions and grapes demand. Across the board theirs is a cracking selection from the straight unoaked St Veran through a handful of individual parcels all with partial oak exposure where appropriate.
Les Chailloux is lieu-dit, literally said or named place. Lovely I hear you all chorus but what, pray tell, does that mean? Effectively it was a cunning way around the bureaucracy of the appellation system that has now been absorbed into the appellation system – glad you asked? It’s a way of singling out really good parcels that produce particular wines. Les Chailloux produces rich, luscious grapes that work particularly well with a good hit of oak. Fantastic integration of fruit and oak produce a wine that really punches well above its price.

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