White Burgundy

A monopole in the heart of Meursault, walled since the monks of Citeaux worked it in the 11th century and owned by one family alone.

Folatieres is among the most celebrated premier crus of Puligny, high on the slope with thin soils over rock.

Vosgros sits in a sun-trap amphitheatre on the left bank, which is why it gives a rounder, riper Chablis than most Premier Crus.

Mont Pelé is a named single vineyard rather than a blended Mâcon, and six generations of Lenoir know how to read it.

Montmains is the Premier Cru for anyone who wants tension rather than weight, and Labille leaves it almost entirely unoaked, letting 15 t...

Enseignères sits immediately below Bâtard-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Bâtard-Montrachet, about as good an address as a village Puligny can claim.

Pouilly-Fuissé is the Mâconnais at its most serious, and Lise Marie is made without any oak so the site rather than the barrel sets the tone.

Les Clos is the benchmark Chablis Grand Cru, and Fèvre farms 4.11 hectares of it — sixteen per cent of the appellation — on the sunniest upper slopes.

Goulley went organic in 1991, among the very first in Chablis to do so, and still farms every hectare that way with minimal sulphur.

La Pièce sous le Bois is Meursault's highest and coolest Premier Cru, which is exactly why it holds its acidity in a hot year like 2022.

Vaudésir is the most amphitheatre-like of the Chablis Grand Crus, and Fèvre's steep, fully south-facing 1.2 hectares give it energy rathe...

A grower's Chablis made entirely without oak, so what reaches the glass is Kimmeridgian limestone and citrus rather than barrel.

En Remilly shares a boundary and much of its stony soil with Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet, and makes wine in the same idio...

A Chablis house that built its name buying back Premier and Grand Cru land, applying the same gravity handling and steel ageing to its village wine.

Valmur lies between Vaudésir and Les Clos and takes something from each: the fruit of one, the frame of the other.

Sixty-five-year-old vines in a parcel that borders Puligny, made by one of the most dependable white-wine cellars in the Côte de Beaune.

A family estate blending several of its own Kimmeridgian parcels rather than buying fruit in, which is rarer at this level of Chablis tha...

Saint-Véran gives the shape of white Burgundy in a more approachable register, and Ferrand makes it without any oak so the fruit and the ...

Village Puligny blended across more than twenty parcels, so it shows the appellation as a whole rather than one plot.

Vaulorent is the Premier Cru that behaves like a Grand Cru, sharing its slope with Les Preuses and parted from it only by a path.

A single hectare in Meursault, two hundred metres from Puligny-Montrachet, bottled under the humbler Bourgogne Côte d'Or appellation.

Genevrières is the Meursault premier cru that gives weight without losing its line, and Bouzereau's version has both.

Village Meursault from a grower who keeps the winemaking deliberately quiet — wild yeasts, a fifth new oak, no heavy hand.

Saint-Véran borders Pouilly-Fuissé and shares much of its limestone, and Plaisance comes from plots at the foot of the appellation's best slopes.