Wine of the Week

We didn't care much for the dish we had cooked for dinner -- see comment below -- but we loved the wine.

This was the Maçon-Villages Vieilles Vignes 2007, from Domaine Perraud, a pure and intense expression of the chardonnay grape. (The Maconnais is a narrow region south of Burgundy proper; "vieilles vignes" means "old vines.") The wine, a radiant pale …