2022 Jean-Claude Ramonet Mâcon-Péronne

When you enter the small medieval village of Péronne in the Mâconnaise region of Burgundy, you would never know that it was a battlefield under German occupation for almost all of World War I. Fortunately, the war ended, the people rebuilt the village and the vineyards were replanted. Today Péronne is a small village with fewer than 600 inhabitants. It is allowed to add its name to the Mâcon appellation, where wine has been produced for centuries, so the wines from this village may carry the name: Mâcon-Péronne. The wines from the Mâcon-Péronne are extremely interesting and famous wineries such as Ramonet are currently making beautiful wines that do not yet have the sometimes ridiculous prices for the wines from, for example, the Chassagne-Montrachet, but we fear that this is also a matter of time

Ramonet's Mâcon-Péronne is a fantastic white Grand Vin de Bourgogne. It has aromas of pear, mint, citrus oil and pastry cream, followed by a medium to full, meaty and enveloping taste that is textural and very lively surrounded by juicy acidity and framed by a stylish backbone from its barrel aging. price/quality is excellent.

ABOUT JEAN-CLAUDE RAMONET

Noël and Jean-Claude Ramonet are the third generation to manage the grand Ramonet wine estate, with the task of maintaining the wonderful reputation it has built up. It is said that grandfather Pierre arrived in Burgundy in the late 1920s with nothing more than his knapsack. After years of purchasing grapes and making wine from them, he was gradually able to purchase wine plots in his chosen village of Chassagne. With the ultimate highlight in 1978 being the purchase of a plot of land from Le Montrachet, and paid in cash too!

Today they own 17 hectares. In the Chassagne the very beautiful premiers crus Ruchottes, Morgeots, Caillerets, Clos-de-la-Boudriotte, Clos-Saint-Jean, Chaumées and Vergers, but also Bâtard and Bienvenues. Recently, Ramonet has been able to expand in Saint-Aubin (Les Charmois) and Puligny-Montrachet (Champ-Canet and very beautiful villages). The average age of the vines is 60 years and the yields per hectare are extremely low. Depending on the quality, the wines are aged for between 12 and 15 months in a mix of new and used oak barrels (generally 30% new oak). Long maturation on the yeast spores, light filtering and only occasional batonnage. The Ramonet brothers, like their grandfather, have remained true winegrowers, but the distribution of their wines is being fought over worldwide. In theory, Noël is responsible for the wine cellars and Jean Claude for the vineyards.