The Maconnais

The Mâconnais is currently perhaps Burgundy’s most dynamic region. In the past only Pouilly Fuissé, source of rich and ripe white wines, stood out from the crowd, but not only are such satellite appellations as Pouilly Vinzelles and the newly created (1998) Viré-Clessé coming alive, but a new generation of growers are now producing some excellent Mâcon Villages. 

These wines used to be cheap and simple, rarely lasting more than a year or two after the vintage, but now one or two growers in each village are making proper, oak aged, complex and reasonably concentrated wines which will develop well in bottle.

• 53 hectares of AC Mâcon (70% white)
• 406 hectares of AC Mâcon Superieur (75% red).
• 1,840 hectares of AC Mâcon Villages. Best individual villages include La Roche Vineuse, Lugny, Milly-Lamartine, Chardonnay, Uchizy.
• 291 hectares of AC St Véran. Recommended producers include Domaine des Deux Roches, Olivier Merlin.
• 47 hectares of AC Pouilly Vinzelles and 31 hectares of AC Pouilly Loché. Recommended producers include Bret Bros, Domaine de la Soufrandiere.
• 211 hectares of AC Viré Clessé. Recommended producers include Bret Bros, Domaine Ste Barbe,
• 764 hectares of AC Pouilly Fuissé. Recommended producers include Ch de Fuisse, Ch des Rontets, Bret Bros, Olivier Merlin, Cordier.
• Recommended Restaurant : La Table de Chaintré (Chaintré)