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Georges Comte
Les Pelerins 2009

'£84'

Crystalline, pure chardonnay - perhaps the most wonderfully enigmatic of George’s wines that we’ve tried as of yet. The energy of this wine has no start and no ending point, it simply oscillates in it’s own little galaxy; to try to describe it exactly would be like trying to catch a breeze. A wine of astounding profundity.
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Crystalline, pure chardonnay - perhaps the most wonderfully enigmatic of George’s wines that we’ve tried as of yet. The energy of this wine has no start and no ending point, it simply oscillates in it’s own little galaxy; to try to describe it exactly would be like trying to catch a breeze. A wine of astounding profundity.

Producer

Georges Comte
Doubs, France

It's our absolute pleasure to have any of the wines of Georges Comte, and here we are with three distinctive bottles each from their own vineyard sites. Georges makes wine to a tradition not often seen anymore; the work is truly done in the vineyard here, and distinctive vineyards they are. Nestled in a rather unexplored region that's not-quite-Burgundy, not-quite-Jura, we find a Jurassic climate with Burgundian terroir...

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