François Carillon, Bourgogne Blanc (Burgundy, France) Chardonnay 2017

 This is seriously delicious Bourgogne Blanc, and those are four words I don’t often group together.  In this case, however, I really mean that it is both serious and delicious.  Often wines in this general category are composed from odds and ends and young vines grown on flatland that taste pretty much like the word “flatland” sounds.  But man, this is juicy and invitingly aromatic and impressively concentrated and braced with a nice little touch of toasty oak.  In short, it tastes like fine white Burgundy (which indeed it is), but at a price most people would pay for standard issue Chardonnay from Sonoma or Monterey that would prove only half as complex.