Ode to a cheap, classic Macon

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Cheap Macon was one of the wines that got me into this gig, and I love it when I come back to an old classic one - like coming home. I enjoy all the higher quality cuvees that have come out over the last decade (at least most of them), but there something about the old school Macons of less pretense that I actually prefer, certainly on a hot Spring day.

07 Talmard Macon-Uchizy - crisp, complete, great acids, lemon, refreshing, interesting enough to keep drinking and tasty enough to put away fast. Best wine in quite a while, in a certain way. In the same category for me as the CRB Sauvignon. Their Macon-Chardonnay is great too.
 
Thanks for posting, Brad. I always thought Kermit's bit on these wines in his book was very sensible, but I haven't done much exploring there myself. Your note gives a useful push.
 
You might want to check out what Hemingway had to say about the Macon in A Moveable Feast, his book about his years in Paris. In his conversation with F. Scott Fitzgerald about leprosy he says "...I urged him to take another drink of Macon, since a good white wine, moderately full-bodied but with a low alcoholic content, was almost a specific against the disease." My kind of medicine.
 
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