This 100% Chardonnay is overflowing with ripe apple, lemon, and chamomile aromas framed by firm acidity and toasty pain grillé. It has superb freshness on the palate with good clarity and mineral persistence. This wine drinks like a wine well above its $15 price point. It’s an excellent value from an appellation which gives just 1% white wine.
Dominique Cornin farms all of his vineyards using organic and biodynamic methods.
Only about 1% of the entire Beaujolais vignoble is planted to white grape varieties. Dominique Cornin is something of a Chardonnay specialist producing an excellent range of white Burgundies from the Mâconnais and Beaujolais areas. Based in the tiny village of Chaintré, this fourth-generation farmer took over the domaine entirely from his father in 1983. All of Dominique’s vineyards are certified organic (agriculture biologique), and he has been practicing biodynamics in the vineyards for the last several years. Dominique Cornin produces just 5,400 cases of wine and uses almost no new oak in his vinifications. There is a mark of limestone in all of Dominique’s wines, and indeed Chaintré itself lies atop an old limestone quarry.
This is the ideal wine for mid-week drinking, and an excellent partner to halibut baked in parchment, seared sea scallops, or simple roast chicken.
Wonderful chardonnay 
