Pierre Girardin : Les Abeilles Chardonnay 2024

Characteristics and Tasting Tips for Les Abeilles Chardonnay 2024 by Pierre Girardin

Tasting

Colour
With a beautiful crystalline brilliance, the colour reveals a pale yellow hue with delicate golden highlights.

Nose
Remarkably pure and mineral, the bouquet opens with an elegant reductive note, unveiling aromas of toasted brioche and candied citrus. With aeration, subtle floral notes of honeysuckle and sage emerge, along with a deep chalky backbone.

Palate
At once generous and invigorating, the palate stands out for its remarkable acidic tension. The whole stretches out at length towards a persistent finish, underscored by delicate saline bitterness.

Food and Wine Pairings

This great white wine will pair wonderfully with scrambled eggs with black truffle and toasted hazelnuts, raw fish, fresh goat's cheese or fine roast white meats.

Serving and Cellaring

To fully enjoy its aromatic profile, we recommend decanting Les Abeilles Chardonnay 2024 about 45 minutes before serving it at a temperature of 11 to 12°C. Accessible now, this wine can be cellared until around 2038.

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The Estate

Heir to a long family lineage, Pierre Girardin officially founded the eponymous estate in 2016. Initially drawing on a few hectares of prestigious terroirs passed down by his father, the young owner and winemaker has rapidly expanded his vineyard. He has established himself as one of the rising figures of his generation. Equipped with a modern winery since 2019, the estate has earned international acclaim for wines that combine precision, purity and respect for the identity of their terroirs.

The Vineyard

Although marketed as a Vin de France, this cuvée comes from a south-facing plot, planted in 1959 with vines from a massal selection that thrive on Bajocian limestone soils. Farmed under organic conversion, without chemical fertilisers or pesticides, this low-yielding terroir promotes optimal concentration in the berries.

Vinification and Ageing

The harvest is carried out by hand. Whole bunches are fermented with indigenous yeasts. Crafted in a topped-up Burgundian style, Les Abeilles Chardonnay 2024 is aged for approximately twelve months in new oak barrels (demi-muids), followed by maturation on its lees in stainless steel tanks. To preserve its full integrity, the wine is bottled without fining or filtration.

Grape Variety

100% Chardonnay.