![]() The same retailer also has an Australian take on the villages idea from Victorian family firm De Bortoli, a balanced chardonnay that wouldn’t be out of place in Mâcon. For value, meanwhile, it’s hard to beat Aldi Côtes du Rhône Villages Signargues 2018 (£6.99, from 1 October), an authentically chewy, rustic, spicy number from the Southern Rhône. His Mâcon-Villages is a genuine bargain a classy, crystalline, fine-boned chardonnay with a flash of minerals and honeyed fruit, perfect with roast chicken.ĭe Bortoli Villages Chardonnay, Yarra Valley, Australia 2018 (£9.99, Aldi ) Other French villages wines that offer something way above the average that I’ve enjoyed recently include: Domaine Gauby Vieilles Vignes Rouge Cotes du Roussillon Villages 2015 (£29.95, Berry Bros & Rudd), a swirl of liquorice spice, medicinal herbs and dried and fresh red fruit from the wilds of the south towards the border with Spain and the amazing meadow-scented, stone fruit-succulent and stony-fresh dry white made by a Burgundian producer at work in the Rhône Valley, Rotem & Mounir Saouma Inopia Côtes du Rhône Villages Blanc 2016 (from £22.95, Hic Vincognito Jeroboams). For all the emphasis on origins, the producer is just as important no matter what the appellation, and Domaine Alexis Pollier has quickly become a trusted name in Mâcon. ![]() Domaine Alexis Pollier Mâcon-Villages, Mâconnais, Burgundy, France 2017 from £12.50, Elicite, Stannary Wine) In the rigid geographical class hierarchy in which French vignerons operate, villages wines are solidly middle-class: above Vin de France (where grapes can be sourced from all over the country) and regional appellations (such as Côtes du Rhône or Beaujolais), but below wines made exclusively from grapes grown in the posher smaller appellations (such as Hermitage in the Rhône, or Pouilly-Fuissé in Burgundy) or in aristocratic classified vineyards (premiers grand crus such as Richebourg or Montrachet). ![]()
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