Domaine de Montbourgeau, L'Etoile, 2023 burgundy_wines-template This midslope

This midslope

Virginia's benchmark natural winery

The Dark Label (Etichetta Scura) is the top selection

Approachable now but built to age fifteen years or more

run by Alessio Bondonio

Domaine de Montbourgeau, L'Etoile, 2023 burgundy_wines-template This midslopeDomaine de Montbourgeau was founded a century ago in the tiny Jura town of L'Etoile, the star, named for the star shaped fossils that fill its soils, relics of seas that dried up eons ago. This is the estate's flagship L'Etoile white, mostly Chardonnay with a touch of Savagnin, and it's the perfect entry point to the house style: complex, saline, mineral driven, with waxy yellow fruit and a finish that goes on. Fresh and current, it captures