Discover Montrachet’s Timeless Vineyards in Burgundy

Exploring Montrachet's Hallowed Vineyards overview

Explore the revered vineyards of Montrachet in Burgundy, where ancient cellars and meticulous winemaking techniques converge to produce some of the world's most prestigious white wines.

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• Drawn back to Burgundy by the newly opened COMO Le Montrachet hotel and restaurant, leading wine writer Guy Woodward returns to an old French love affair: the exclusive vineyards and ancient cellars behind the world’s greatest whites.
• MAIN PHOTOGRAPHS MARTIN MORRELL | POLAROIDS GUY WOODWARD.
• There are four of us squeezing through the confines of Domaine Blain-Gagnard’s spartan cellar in the sleepy Burgundian village of Chassagne-Montrachet.
• Owner Jean-Marc Blain is extracting various 2022 wines from the oak barrels in which they are maturing before being bottled early next year.
• We taste a Chassagne-Montrachet, followed by a Puligny-Montrachet, taken from one of a dozen or so barrels of each of these white Burgundy staples.
• Then Blain leads us to a single barrel in the corner of a sepulchral side chamber, the name ‘Le Montrachet’ scrawled across it in chalk.
• It is the only vessel among the scores surrounding us to carry the venerated name, the wine harvested from Blain-Gagnard’s small patch of this vaunted vineyard, which extends to a mere 0.08 of a hectare.
• Not yet fully integrated with the oak, it nevertheless carries a rich, long seam of nutty, spicy creaminess that is hard to equate with the reputation of its source material, that supposedly most banal of grape varieties, chardonnay.
• Except this isn’t, of course, any old chardonnay.
• As the renowned wine critic William Kelley says, 'There is chardonnay, and then there is white Burgundy.' In much the same way, there is white Burgundy, and then there is Montrachet.

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