At the table with Chablis 1er Cru Beauregard 2023
Seared scallops with brown butter, turbot with hollandaise sauce, poularde with morels, roast langoustines, 24-month Comté.
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Chablis 1er Cru Beauregard 2023Domaine Jean-Marc Brocard
Jean-Marc Brocard's Chablis 1er Cru Beauregard comes from a climat classified as premier cru, located south-west of Chablis, not far from Préhy where the house has been based since 1973. The vines stretch across a very steep slope, at nearly 300 metres above sea level. This fine sun exposure gives the wine roundness and fruit, while the Jurassic marls and limestones and the semi-continental climate preserve the Chardonnay's freshness and tension.
In the cellar, the Brocard house favours gravity transfers, from receiving the harvest through to settling, without pumping. Fermentations are carried out with native yeasts and monitored daily by tasting and analysis. The wine is then aged on its lees, without unnecessary intervention, in the vessel chosen according to its potential, stainless-steel tank or large oak vat (foudre). This ageing preserves the freshness and minerality of the terroir, while giving the wine balance and ageing potential.
This wine reveals notes of lemon, grapefruit, aniseed, acacia, white flowers, yellow peach, mirabelle plum and chalk. The nose combines the freshness of citrus with aniseed and floral nuances, completed by sun-drenched yellow fruit. The palate is precise, elegant and round, supported by a mineral backbone that leads to a fresh, persistent finish.
All about Chablis 1er Cru Beauregard 2023
At what temperature should Chablis 1er Cru Beauregard 2023 be served?
Between 10 and 12 °C.
How long can Chablis 1er Cru Beauregard 2023 be kept?
Ageing potential: 5 to 10 years, until around 2033. Store the bottle lying down, away from light, at around 12 °C.
Which grapes make up Chablis 1er Cru Beauregard 2023?
Grapes: 100 % Chardonnay. Origin: Burgundy, Francia. Alcohol: 13%.
What to serve with Chablis 1er Cru Beauregard 2023?
Chablis 1er Cru Beauregard 2023 pairs well with shellfish, hard cheese, white fish and white meat. Our dish ideas are in the food pairing box at the top of the page.
Where are we traveling?
BurgundyFrancia
Burgundy is a real adventure land for wine lovers! Supported by a predominantly continental climate, Burgundy wines draw their unique character from diverse influences — continental, Mediterranean and oceanic — which intertwine to create a symphony of incomparable flavors. It is this climatic fusion that allows each Burgundy Grand Cru to reveal aromas and flavors that some consider to be the best in the world.
From north to south, each Burgundian wine region, from Chablis to Mâconnais, benefits from its own microclimate. In Chablis, winegrowers combat spring frosts by wrapping the vines in a protective cocoon of frozen water. On the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune, the hills capture the sunlight, generating hot summers which fill the grapes with sunshine, while the Mâconnais benefits from an almost Mediterranean climate, less prone to frost and drier.
This mix of climatic conditions, combined with a diverse geology with more than 400 different soil types, gives each Burgundy wine its own identity. Each bottle is a story of terroir, a story of land and climate, an invitation to explore the rich wine heritage of Burgundy.
The little history of the country
Francia
The cradle of wine culture in Western Europe, France owes its first vines to the Greeks of Phocaea, who settled around Marseille some twenty-six centuries ago, before the Romans spread viticulture along the Rhône and the Garonne and as far as Champagne. In the Middle Ages, Cistercian and Benedictine monks cleared the slopes of Burgundy and patiently mapped out the climats, laying the foundations of the notion of terroir. The 19th century brought the glory of the classifications, then the disaster of phylloxera, which wiped out the vineyards before they were rebuilt on American rootstocks; the creation of the appellations d'origine contrôlée in the 1930s then set the rules that would inspire the whole world. Today, France vies every year with Italy and Spain for first place in world production by volume and remains the ultimate benchmark of the Old World, as much for its age-worthy wines as for its winemaking models. Vineyards cover almost the entire country, from the cool north of Champagne and Alsace to the Mediterranean shores of Languedoc and Provence, by way of the oceanic climates of Bordeaux, the Loire and the South-West, continental Burgundy, the steep slopes of the northern Rhône and the high-altitude valleys of Savoie and the Jura. This mosaic of soils – limestone, schist, gravel or rounded pebbles – explains the extraordinary diversity of styles. As for grape varieties, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot dominate Bordeaux and produce structured reds, Pinot Noir is the signature of Burgundian finesse, Syrah of the depth of the Rhône, while Grenache, Gamay, Cabernet Franc and Mourvèdre cover every register, from easy-drinking wines to wines for long ageing. Among the whites, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin, Riesling and Viognier offer expressions ranging from lively and mineral to unctuous, all the way to great sweet wines. A land of benchmarks and constant discoveries, France remains the compass for wine lovers the world over.