Roblet-Monnot Hautes-Cotes de Beaune Chardonnay Nerthus 2023 BFCM21ALL It's a rose built for

It's a rose built for the dinner table rather than the aperitif hour

the kind of low-intervention approach that lets the grape's juicy

Displaying a captivating ruby hue

but it's the interesting way

Virgile Lignier gives it a high proportion of whole clusters and a light touch of oak

Roblet-Monnot Hautes-Cotes de Beaune Chardonnay Nerthus 2023 BFCM21ALL It's a rose built forAbout 150 cases are made of this, from Chardonnay vines planted in 1970 at Paris l'Hopital, up in the Maranges hills just south of Santenay. Pascal Roblet went biodynamic in 1997, early for Burgundy, and plows with a horse to keep his soils from compacting; yields here are held to around 40 hectoliters per hectare. The wine ferments and ages a year in second and third fill French oak barrels, then racks to stainless steel for six more months, with