Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet 2022 NO20231025 Valdiguie is the grape California

Valdiguie is the grape California spent decades calling Napa Gamay - a misidentification finally corrected by a French ampelographer in 1980

and it's a killer one

it emerges with powerful aromatics—smoke-accented dark berries

This is a nice step up from the Selection Belles Annees and definitely the next one to try in the Gimonnet collection

It’s all there

Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet 2022 NO20231025 Valdiguie is the grape CaliforniaIf you want to know what a domaine actually believes, drink its village wine. The grand crus can hide behind their addresses; a village Chassagne has nowhere to go. Ramonet's is assembled from parcels across the appellation, native fermented and raised mostly in older barrels, and it tastes like a scaled down version of the serious bottles rather than a different wine entirely. 2022 was warm and abundant and then surprised everyone by hanging onto its