Mâcon-Bussières

Our Mâcon-Bussières 2016 will perfectly pair with a plate of fresh goat cheeses, white fishes as monkfish and salmon or a Bresse chicken.

We own one plot of Mâcon-Bussières planted in 1980. The plot’s name is called ‘Pierre Aigüe’. East exposure. The soil is mainly silty and sandy with limestony subsoil. Warm and draining surface giving amplitude and concentration to the grapes.

Aged in stainless steel for 10 to 12 months.

To preserve their integrity, grapes are carefully harvested and sorted out by hand. Full clusters. Following the pneumatic press, juices stay in a vat overnight for a cool settling down. Alcoholic and malolactic fermentations take place in stainless steel vats.

Thirty years ago the visionary mayor of the village of Azé in the Maconnais region in southern Burgundy had the great idea of offering the uncultivated land on top of the famous Azé prehistorical grotto. Judicious wine investors took advantage of this opportunity and the Domaine de la Garenne was born finding its bucolic and wise name in the local land Registry. In 2008 Eliane and René Beaumont together with their children had the chance to get involved in the project of Domaine de la Garenne on the side of Bertrand and Christiane Devillard heirs of Marquis de Jouenne in Mercurey whose family had been in the wine business for centuries already.