2018 Domaine De Roally Vire-Clesse Tradition

2018 Domaine De Roally Vire-Clesse Tradition

2018 Domaine De Roally Vire-Clesse Tradition The Domaine de Roally Viré-Clessé is an outstanding white wine from Burgundy’s Maconnaise district. The wine is crisp and dry, with soft hints of honey balanced by an inviting mineral quality and bright acidity. This 2018 vintage wine made of 100% Chardonnay satisfies both the Chardonnay drinker with its round flavor and good weight as well as those who prefer a leaner wine as being from the Maconnaise the Domaine de Roally is both clean on the palate with a nice crisp finish. This is the perfect wine to serve alongside a roasted chicken either on the grill or in the oven. It would also pair well with most any salmon or tuna recipe.

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Young Gauthier Thevenet took over the reins of the venerable Domaine de Roally in 2000 upon the retirement of the legendary Henri Goyard. Goyard’s tradition, spirit, and passion for excellence continue in Thevenet’s talented hands, yielding one of Burgundy’s most distinctive and compelling Chardonnays. Domaine de Roally’s style is not shy. Roally’s Chardonnays are pruned for low yields and harvested late, which amplifies the wine’s fruit and mineral expressions. Roally’s 2018 Vire-Clesse casts a beautiful lemon-gold color from the glass followed by aromas of honeycomb, ripe yellow plums, gunflint, lemon thyme, and sweet cinnamon. Rich and mouth-filling yet brisk and driven by its mineral spine, the wine fuses suggestions of apricots, ripe Golden Delicious apples with refreshing acidity and a blast of flinty limestone soil. Long and smoky on the finish, the wine revisits its fleshy kernel of yellow fruits lifted by riveting acidity and bristling mineral energy. A white Burgundy of incomparable character, Roally’s Vire-Clesse was made to handle the richest fare: plump briny oysters, lobsters in drawn butter, seared scallops, fatty pates, roasted marrow bones, and fatty Chinook salmon. Enjoy now and over the coming two decades.