2012 Olivier Merlin Mâcon la Roche-Vineuse, Burgundy, France $12/46
White Burgundy what what??!! It’s time for the queen of France to make a debut on our wine list! Mâcon is a sub appellation of the most famous growing region in perhaps the world, Burgundy. Mâcon is known for it’s white burgundy (chardonnay) at a great value!
Olivier and Corinne Merlin are a married duo of winemakers who have long believed in the growing potential in the Mâconnais. Taking part in a grape harvest in 1977, Olivier Merlin got a taste of the wine world and never looked back. Olivier spent two years as a cellar worker in a Jura co-op and there he found his wife Corinne. The two went to California in 1985 to work as vintners in Napa for two years before heading back to Burgundy. In 2006 Merlin began to purchase vineyard sites for himself and now owns sites in Moulin-a-Vent (Beaujolais), Mâcon la Roche, and Saint-Véran le Grand Bussière.
Merlin Mâcon la Roche grows on a terroir of clay-limestone soil and is all hand picked. 85% of the wine is fermented in stainless steel and 15% in oak barrels lending to it’s clean but long finish and body. 100% of the wine undergoes Malolactic fermentation and then has 18 months of elevage or raising before being bottled. Elevage is the practice of resting, additional barrel work, and fine tuning the wine after fermentation and before bottling.
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