Terres Secrètes Cerço Mâcon-Villages 2020
- 90
- $45
- Drink by: 2024-2027
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A Chardonnay bright in fruit and fresh acidity and one that builds in the glass. I kept returning to explore its hidden depths. Don’t overchill for aromas of citrus blossom, honeysuckle, yellow peach, lemon zest, mango skin, saline notes and crushed gravel. A solid, all round, good drinking entry point to Burgundy, Mâcon-Villages is well served by this wine. Buttery in texture, it explores citrus, peach, herbal lemon verbena and preserved lemon against a background of crushed gravel and keen acidity on the back palate. Maybe not particularly complex (you need to go up the AOC ladder for that), but it ticks a lot of good drinking boxes. NOTE: Terres Secrètes or secret lands in English is a fitting name for the wines of a collective of winegrowers farming in the Mâconnais sub-region of southern Burgundy. Cerço translates as ‘change’ and is indicative of the co-op’s moves to eco-friendly production methods including a move to organic wine growing, lightweight bottles, wine boxes, French corks, bio-sourced paper labels and the removal of capsules.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
