Chevrot owns four hectares of Pinot Noir in this climat; he uses only the best fruit for this cuvée. The plots face south and are rich in limestone, gravel and decomposed sand from granite. The river, la Cozanne, which made this soil, crosses a granitic canyon. The granitic sand in this soil gives...

100% Chardonnay. Like Domaine de la Bongran and Domaine Émilian Gillet, Domaine de Roally belongs to the Thévenet family. Bongran is the original heart of it all; Gillet was added in 1980; and Roally came about after the 2000 vintage. Roally's original owner was an old schoolmate of Jean Thévenet's...

100% Chardonnay. 2023 is just the third vintage of white wine at Desvignes, the first in the domaine's 8 generations. The 0.26-hectare plot of vines planted in 2005 is in the same vineyard as the Gamay for their relatively new "L'Aube à Javernières", on deep clay soils technically just outside the...

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Gras Moutons is a lieu-dit on a windy, south-facing slope in the Muscadet cru of Monnières-St. Fiacre. The sandy, gravelly soils with little clay are rich in decomposed amphibolite (compacted sand) rocks and gneiss (granite metamorphized by pressure & heat). The vines...

100% Cabernet Franc. The vieilles vignes in this case are estate vines ranging from 50 to 100 years old and scattered across a range of parcels on clay-limestone soils. The farming is certified-organic and is in conversion to biodynamics. The bunches are harvested by hand and fully destemmed for...