2023 Bourgogne Chardonnay, Domaine Fabien Coche

• Style: Mineral-bright, taut Burgundy Chardonnay
• Taste: Citrus and green apple with refined limestone structure
• Food: Roasted chicken, butter-poached fish, cream sauces, Brie
• Occasion: Sunday lunch, date night, everyday drinking
• Serve: Chilled; 12% ABV, lithe and precise

In the Glass — Tasting Notes

Clean-cut citrus and green apple sit on a bed of mineral grip rather than butter. The 2023 vintage captured fully ripe grapes without heaviness, and at 12% ABV the wine feels lithe and precise—a Meursault-based expression that rewards attention without demanding it. This is everyday drinking with backbone.

The Winery — Domaine Fabien Coche

A fourth-generation vigneron, Fabien joined his family's storied Meursault estate in 1995, renaming it to his own in 2020. He has built a reputation for making taut, focused wines from the family's twelve-hectare holding, which comprises forty parcels spread across nearby Côte de Beaune villages—many over sixty years old, giving the wine rare depth of character. Since the early 2000s, Fabien has farmed organically and achieved formal certification from the 2023 vintage. The wine ferments in large foudre and spends ten months on its lees before six months in stainless steel, building texture without oak overlay.

At Your Table — Food Pairing & Serving

This wine partners beautifully with roasted chicken, butter-poached cod, or any cream-sauced fish. It's equally at home with Brie or Chaumes cheese. Burgundy's limestone-rich slopes and cool-to-moderate continental climate are precisely why Chardonnay thrives here, building structure and nuance that fruit-forward warmth alone cannot achieve. Balanced, mineral-driven, and true to site, it drinks like a wine twice the price—perfect for Sunday lunch, date night, or discovering what genuine Burgundian clarity tastes like. Explore more from this producer and the broader France selection; there's real discovery to be had.