Description
Domaine de Baronarques Le Chardonnay Limoux Blanc 2018《WC Selection - F384》
Region : Limoux AOC, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Grape varieties : 100% Chardonnay
Alcohol : 13%
Official website：https://www.domaine-de-baronarques.com/
🌟 Owned by Rothschild family, the prestige owner of Bordeaux's first growth Lafite and Mouton
🌟 Limoux - One of the Grand Crus du Languedoc, producing elegant wines
🏅 James Suckling 93 pts
🌟 Wine Advocate 92 pts：this estate's Chardonnay is usually excellent；The smart money is on the 2018 white
Domaine de Baronarques is a very old estate, dating back at least to the 17th Century, when it was called Domaine de Lambert. At the time, the estate belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Polycarpe, a village near Limoux in the Aude department of Southern France.
After changing hands several times, the estate was sold to Michel Tisseyre in 1875. The Tisseyre family extended the vineyard – it covered 48 hectares (120 acres) in 1910 – and between 1890 and 1900 built themselves an attractive residence with a terrace and a garden.
In 1998 Mr. Chéreau, a Marseilles lawyer and heir of the estate, sold it to Baroness Philippine de Rothschild and her two sons. The three entrusted the management of the Domaine to the family company, Baron Philippe de Rothschild S.A. The estate was very run down, calling for extensive renovation of the vineyard and the winemaking facilities, a process that took five years.
In 2003, Domaine de Baronarques benefited from a fortunate conjunction of circumstances: the wine proved to be of very high quality and the Domaine was awarded the AOC Limoux rouge appellation, newly created by the Institut National des Appellations d’Origine (INAO). Domaine de Baronarques could take its rightful place alongside the family’s other estates, including the illustrious Château Mouton Rothschild.
Camille Sereys de Rothschild joined the original buyers, Philippe Sereys de Rothschild and Julien de Beaumarchais de Rothschild, her brothers, in 2014.
🏅 James Suckling 93 pts
Apples and nougat with some peaches and pralines on the nose. Full-bodied, tight and poised with dried pineapple and mango. Some mineral and stone, too. Lots going on. Rather unique. Drink or hold.
🏅 Wine Advocate 92 pts
A reassuring return to form after a lesser 2017, the 2018 Limoux Chardonnay combines classy notes of pencil shavings with hints of toasted hazelnut and white peaches on the nose. It's medium-bodied, poised and elegant, with just enough custardy richness and generosity to balance the ripe, mouthwatering acids that linger refreshingly on the finish.
A Limoux-based offshoot of the Baron Philippe de Rothschild empire, this estate's Chardonnay is usually excellent, despite the Bordelais heritage. That said, both the red and the white wines appeared to struggle in 2017. The smart money is on the 2018 white and searching out remaining bottles of the 2016 red.
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