Reliably a highlight of the Verget portfolio, the 2022 Mâcon-Bussières Vignes de Montbrison offers up aromas of pear, white flowers, hazelnuts and freshly baked bread, followed by a medium-bodied, satiny and charming palate, girdled by lively acids and concluding with a saline finish.
This is one of Verget's most popular wines, coming from vines planted close to the border of Bussieres and Vergisson, touching Pouilly Fuisse. The vines face west and the vineyard is very stony. Average vine age is around 40 years. The free run juice was all vinified in barrel with 25% new oak. The wine was then aged for a further 8 months in barrel with regular batonnage. A superb rendition of this great value cuvée, the nose has a stony, flinty tension, bursting with energy and layered with lemon curd, wood smoke and vibrant white peach. The palate manages to brilliantly blend flesh and freshness, ripe orchard fruits cut by vibrant, lively acids. Poised and very drinkable already, this will shine in its youth. Impressive length suggests it may also improve over the next two to three years in bottle, too. Reliably excellent, punching above its weight.
