Chassagne-Montrachet

Chassagne-Montrachet is a commune of the Côte-d'Or département in France.

Wine

Chassagne-Montrachet is an appellation consisting of 350 ha (865 acres) of clayish limestone located south of Côte de Beaune. Sixty-five percent of the production is Chardonnay and 40% is Pinot Noir.

The Marquis de Laguiche is a Premier Cru Morgeot vineyard in Chassagne-Montrachet. It cultivates its vineyards in consultation with Philippe Drouhin and sells its grapes to Maison Joseph Drouhin.

The 1970 vintage was selected by Robert Lawrence Balzer for competition in the New York Wine Tasting of 1973, who assembled 14 leading wine experts including France's Alexis Lichine. They evaluated 23 Chardonnays from California, New York, and France in a blind tasting before an assemblage of 250 members of the New York Food and Wine Society.

The group was surprised when California Chardonnays received the top four scores. Fifth place went to the 1969 Beaune Clos des Mouches Joseph Drouhin. Other French wines in the competition were the 1970 Corton-Charlemagne Louis Latour and the 1971 Pouilly-Fuisse Louis Jadot.

See also

* Montrachet
* French Wine
* Globalization of wine
* Paris Wine Tasting of 1976
* Wine competitions

Sources

*Chassagne-Montrachet
*marquis de Laguiche

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