BOURGOGNE CHARDONNAY LE HAUT DES CHAMPS

Le Haut des Champs is a cuvée name, based on the name of the lieu-dit where the cellar is located. This is 75% domaine-owned fruit, from Chassagne- and Puligny-Montrachet and the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits. It has been the same blend since 2019. Fresh white peach and pear fruit, with a nice crunch and definition. All barrel fermented.  

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 17

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£135 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

SAINT-ROMAIN LA PÉRIÈRE

La Périère is a north-facing, cool site in Saint-Romain, the higher-elevation village which is making waves in the world of climate change. Saline and mineral, this has a fabulous linear drive. I made a note to try to get my hands on some… 

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 17.5+

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£165 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

RULLY BLANC LES GAUDOIRS 

Les Gaudoirs is in the southern part of Rully, the cooler sector, at higher altitude, which is visible in this wine’s clipped, crunchy precision. Apple and pear fruit, with pithy orchard fruit skin. Just under 20% new oak. This gets 16 months of élevage, the last four of which are in vat. No bâtonnage, as for all the whites.  

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 17

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£160 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

RULLY BLANC 1ER CRU LES RACLOTS 

1er Cru Raclots is in the centre of the village. It is always richer in character than Les Gaudoirs, according to Antonin Pillot, with whom we tasted. Unfortunately, we did not manage to taste the 2023.  

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£185 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET

The domaine’s Chassagne village is a blend of six parcels throughout the village, which come to two hectares. Aromas of sweet stone fruit, with lime rind and grapefruit. The palate is stricter, with flinty extract and shape. 25% new oak, with vinification mostly in larger 350L barrels. 

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 17+

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£285 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 1ER CRU LES BAUDINES - HK ONLY

This is a négociant bottling — the date of harvest was a little later here than at the domaine. It comes from one plot, in the warmer south of the appellation — just three barrels are made. There is almost no top soil, which tends to make for a particularly mineral style. Ripe stone fruit on the nose, then fine and clipped on the palate, with mineral definition.  

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 16.5+

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£375 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 1ER CRU LA MALTROIE - SCO + HK

A very small plot, 0.10 hectares, from which just two barrels were made in 2023. The domaine does all the work here, although these are bought-in grapes. Ripe and effusive, with fleshy stone fruit and lime zest.  

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE  17+

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£385 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 1ER CRU LES MACHERELLES 

The domaine owns 0.25 hectares of Macherelles, in the north of Chassagne, in one plot. This is fertile soil, which retains water and, according to Antonin Pillot, results in higher-acid wines. Lean and mineral, taut and stony mineral. One for the classicists. 

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 17

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£375 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 1ER CRU LES CHENEVOTTES

This is a domaine bottling. It comes from two plots of 0.4 hectares in total. The larger of these is just beneath Les Vergets, in the north of Chassagne, at the top of the slope. A flinty-mineral nose leads into a fine, clipped palate, with friable white peach and sea shell minerality. 30% new oak.  

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 17.5+

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£375 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

PULIGNY-MONTRACHET LES NOYERS BRET - ASIA ONLY

This plot is fabulously sited, beneath Puligny-Montrachet’s much-loved Enseignères, with a little more clay and therefore richness. It is the domaine’s only parcel in Puligny. Sweetly fruited, with sherbet and lemon zest, with a nice density to the mid-palate. This spends 12 months in barrel, then six months in vat.  

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 17.5+

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£290 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 1ER CRU MORGEOT LES FAIRENDES 

This comes from 0.35 hectares of Les Fairendes, a large mid-slope vineyard in the centre of the appellation. Chalky-mineral and finely, energetically driven — this is a powerful and driving wine, very impressive.  

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 18

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£455 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 1ER CRU LES CAILLERETS – SCO ONLY

From 0.40 hectares of old vines, in En Cailleret, behind Clos Saint-Jean. A wine of energy and drive, flinty and mineral, of extract and power. Lots of ageing potential here.  

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 18

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£455 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

BOURGOGNE PINOT NOIR

This is made of 80% domaine-owned fruit, from Chassagne-Montrachet and Santenay, with some 5% négociant purchases from the Côte de Nuits. Crunchy and red-fruited, with a fine acid backbone. This is being bottled in January 2025. 

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 16.5+

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£115 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET ROUGE VIEILLES VIGNES 

As the suffix Vieilles Vignes suggests, the domaine’s village Chassagne-Montrachet is rather impressively the product of 50–60-year-old vines. Juicy raspberry and blackberry, with bitter cherry. 7,500 bottles were made. This will be bottled in February-March 2025. 25% new oak. 

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 16.5-17

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£200 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 1ER CRU ROUGE LES MACHERELLES

The domaine has 0.25 hectares in 1er Cru Les Macherelles, in the north of the appellation, not far from the grands crus of Puligny. Pillot’s plot is beside that of our good friend François Carillon. Crunchy and red-berried, with lovely brightness. 20% new oak.  

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 16.5-17

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£275 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CHASSAGNE-MONTRACHET 1ER CRU ROUGE CLOS SAINT-JEAN

This is an old plot of 0.40 hectares, of which a third was grubbed up in 2024. Bright red cherry and berry fruit — a wine of purity, intensity and persistence. These grapes are now pressed with a vertical press which, in Antonin Pillot’s experience, aids its sense of purity.  

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 17.5

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£395 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK

CORTON-BRESSANDES GRAND CRU – HK ONLY

Moving north to the hill of Corton. The grapes for this wine are bought from a friend of the Pillot family. Crunchy, with intense bitter cherry and wild strawberry fruit, framed by fine, fruit-coated tannins and enriched by chalky mineral definition. Only two barrels were made in 2023. 

CORNEY & BARROW SCORE 17.5+

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£765 / CASE 6 BOTTLES, IN BOND UK