Domaine Frantz Chagnoleau, Chardonnay, Saint-Véran La Fournaise, Burgundy, France 2015

Frantz Chagnoleau and his wife Caroline Gon, who is also the winemaker at the Comte Lafon Mâcon operation, are rising stars of the Mâconnais. Together they have a small domaine consisting of 3.5 hectares of Mâcon in a single block in Saint Albain, and several small plots in Viré Clessé, Saint Véran and Pouilly Fuissé, making up 6.8 hectares in total. All the vineyards are organically farmed. All aged in demi-muids with no new wood. The whitest and most mineral soil they have. Spicy and super-dry and bright. Firm and all in bracing brightness and minerality. 'A reductive and Chablis-like character.