100% Chardonnay. On his home estate in hilly Charnay in the southern Beaujolais, Jean-Paul Brun started planting Chardonnay in 1983 on the sandy clay-limestone soils. The farming is organic and harvest is by hand. The bunches are destemmed and fermented with native yeasts and without sulfur in...

Chevrot's plot in the Haute Côtes has a blue marl soil, which imparts salinity and freshness. Aged half in foudres and half in neutral barrels.

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. From a 0.4-hectare parcel of vines planted in the 1960s in the Tarlants' home village of Oeuilly. This northeast-facing slope features eolian soils with stones of silex, flint being quite rare here. 2011 is the first bottling of this single parcel, brought about by the demise of...

From a steep west-facing vineyard behind the Grand Cru hill on the right bank of the Serein. The valley runs north to south and cold winds come through from the north. Fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks. Notes of nectarine and a hint of thyme.

100% Chardonnay. The de Moors have 1.2 hectares of Chardonnay in two contiguous parcels in Chitry-Le-Fort, down the road from their home village of Courgis. Like their next-door Aligoté parcel, this one they began planting in 1995; together these parcels form the origin and heart of the estate. The...

100% Chardonnay. The original Boulard family vineyard is in the village of Cormicy, at the northernmost limit of Champagne in a sub-zone called the Massif de St. Thierry, well northwest of the city of Reims. The Boulards have 1.6 hectares of vines here. The fruit for the blanc de blancs comes from...

In 2015, chateau owner Bertrand Gourdou was searching through an old desk when he came across a label that his grandfather had made in the early 1970's; that wine was called "Le pot-de-vin" which, in French, translates to "the bribe", which for that era was an audacious play on words for a wine...

This is one of the only Pouilly-Fuisse that Saumaize-Michelin makes from the village of Solutre. They have a .25 hectare parcel with south east exposure and 45 year old vines. The vines are at about 300 meters altitude compared to Vergisson where the average is 370 meters high. The subsoil here is...