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The 2024 Chassagne-Montrachet Village is a blend of seven lieux-dits with one-third from Morgeots, all touching Grand Crus. It has a touch of oyster shell on the nose that combines deftly with the citrus fruit. Fine delineation and focus. The palate is well balanced with a killer line of acidity, impressive depth and intensity, lightly spiced with a powerful and long finish that is unequivocally Premier Cru in standard. You will find few white Village Crus better than this.(NM)

Bid on this bottle of 1993 Remoissenet Montrachet Grand Cru .

Bid on this 6-bottle tasting lot; including 1-bottle of 1983 Fernand Coffinet Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge, 2-bottles of 1995 Chateau de Fuissé Pouilly-Fuissé "Vieilles Vignes", 1-bottle of 1995 Chateau de la Maltroye Chassagne-Montrachet 1er "Dent de Chien", 1-bottle of 1995 Château de la Maltroye Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru "La Romanée", and 1-bottle of 1996 Michel Colin-Deléger Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru "En Remilly". Of the 1995 Château de la Maltroye Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru "La Romanée", This private domaine has 15 hectares in Chassagne-Montrachet. La Romanée tends to have a classic minerally profile, enhanced by partial fermentation in stainless steel, then finishing in barrel. The owner is Jean-Pierre Cornut, third generation to farm this property.

Attractive pale colour. The bouquet is reticent with fresh citrus, and some leesy minerals. Definitely some citrus notes on the palate too along with white apple fruit, good length, well balanced, white wine terroirs. Drink from 2026-2029. Tasted Oct 2024.

They are Chassagne end, homogenous plot. Pale lemon colour. Here the nose has a sense of lifted energy alongside then weight of Morgeot. Quintessence of Chassagne for Bastien and consistent every year. Ripe grapefruit and a texture which makes one salivate. Finesse too. Pretty spectacular potential. *5 Stars*

Bid on this bottle of 2018 Domaine Jean-Claude Ramonet Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru "Boudriotte" (95JS, 94DC, 93RP, 91BH, 91WS). James Suckling: "Clean and steely with stone and slate aromas and flavors. Flinty. Matchstick. Medium- to full-bodied. Powerful and beautiful." (12/2022)

Pure clean lemon yellow. Quite a difference in the bouquet as here the fruit ripens well and the proximity of Bâtard is evident in the extra weight of fruit. Striking intensity further back on the palate with a driving force of white fruit, backed up by a little more oak.

Note: a négociant wine from a purchase of must. Firm reduction dominates the nose. There is again good verve and freshness to the bigger-bodied and richer medium weight flavors that possess a caressing yet relatively powerful mouthfeel, all wrapped in a bone-dry, detailed and impressively long finale. This could use better depth but the development potential is such that more should reasonably develop if given a chance. Worth a look.*Burghound Outstanding!*

Fine lees, stone fruit, citrus and subtle cream on the nose. Medium-bodied with touches of oatmeal and lemons. A little phenolic at the end, with good drive, freshness and salinity. Barrel-fermented with around 20% new oak. Drink now or hold.

Pale lemon, clean and clear cut. Correctly ripe, a little bit of spice at the finish, which falls away a touch compared to the St-Aubin backbone. Still, a very sound Chassagne from white terroirs if I remember correctly. Drink from 2027-2031. Tasted Nov 2025.

Note: from Ez Crottes. Here too there is ample floral influence to the ripe and ever-so-vaguely exotic aromas of poached pear, white peach, orange peel and soft petrol. There is very good volume to the bigger-bodied and denser, though notably less refined, flavors that possess evident power on the bitter lemon rind-inflected finale. This is promising and a wine that should be more than capable of repaying 5 to 8-ish years of keeping.

Sab’s Gin is a French distilled spirit from Chassagne-Montrachet in Burgundy. Presented in a 500ml bottle, it offers an uncommon connection between gin and a village internationally associated with Burgundy’s wine culture, placing this spirit within one of France’s most historically recognized wine-producing landscapes.

Sab’s Alembic Bourguignon is keeping alive one of Burgundy’s nearly vanished traditions: the bouilleur ambulant, or itinerant distiller, who once traveled from village to village transforming the region’s pomace and lees into eau-de-vie. Founded in Beaune in 2019 by Mathieu Sabbagh, Sab’s works directly with some of Burgundy’s most important winegrowing families, collecting freshly pressed grape pomace at the cellar door and, in the traditional manner, distilling it right at the domaine. Their Le Marc de Bourgogne Très Vieux is produced entirely from Burgundian Pinot Noir and carries the Marc de Bourgogne AOC, one of France’s historic appellations for grape-pomace brandy. The spirit is steam-distilled before spending seven years in small Burgundy oak barrels, followed by an additional six-month finish in Cognac casks, and is bottled at a robust 46% ABV. This is about as far removed from anonymous industrial marc as one could imagine. It is a spirit born directly from the raw material of great Burgundy, distilled by a producer dedicated to preserving a disappearing regional craft, then given serious time in barrel. For anyone fascinated by Burgundy, traditional French eau-de-vie or simply beautifully made old brandy, Sab’s offers a remarkable glimpse into a part of the region that even serious wine drinkers rarely get to experience.

Super-fresh aromas include those of smoky apple, pear, citrus, petrol and a similar whiff of rosemary oil. The rich, delicious and caressing yet powerful medium weight flavors that exhibit excellent length on the balanced, sappy and lightly austere finale. This is terrific for a villages-level Chassagne and while it could use better depth, the underlying material appears more than up to the job of developing it with a few years of bottle aging.*Burghound Outstanding!*

Bid on this 6-bottle tasting lot; including 3-bottles of 2020 Domaine Bernard Moreau Chassagne-Montrachet ((89-92BH), 92JG, 92JM, 91RP, (89-91VN)), 1-bottle of 2020 Domaine Bernard Moreau Chassagne-Montrachet ((89-92BH), 92JG, 92JM, 91RP, (89-91VN)), 1-bottle of 2020 Domaine Bernard Moreau Chassagne-Montrachet ((89-92BH), 92JG, 92JM, 91RP, (89-91VN)), and 1-bottle of 2020 Domaine Bernard Moreau Chassagne-Montrachet ((89-92BH), 92JG, 92JM, 91RP, (89-91VN)). Of the 2020 Domaine Bernard Moreau Chassagne-Montrachet, Jasper Morris writes: "Pale with a light green tint. Very backward on the nose with a coiled intensity on the palate. A lime note to finish. This is more reserved than when tasted from barrel but I am sure will make a fabulous bottle of Chassagne-Montrachet. Drink from 2025-2030. " (10/2022)

Bid on this 5-bottle lot of 2007 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Les Pucelles" (96WE, 95JG, 94BH, 94RP, 94VN, 93ST, 93WS, 91W&S). Wine Enthusiast: "A powerful wine, showing rich, opulent Chardonnay. The spice and acidity crispen the wine, but leave the powerful fruit in all its glory. (RV)" (07/2010)

Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 1994 Domaine Marquis de Laguiche (Joseph Drouhin) Chassagne-Montrachet.

Picked among the first plots on 2nd September, as the vine selection is for chardonnay ‘très fin’. Mixed lemon and lime in colour. Compared to the St-Aubin this is rather fuller on the palate and fleshes out the middle. Complex and tight, will need a long time. The texture has many strands built in. Drink from 2027-2032. Tasted Nov 2025.

Mid lemon and lime in colour, with a characterful nose, certainly ripe enough grapes while retaining a fresh vigour. Not quite reaching honeysuckle levels, but adding a juicy note to the fruit. Fine length with freshness. Drink from 2027-2032.

Picked at the same time of the same day as Pierre-Yves Colin Morey’s holding of Caillerets. A clear green streak in the colour, and a beautifully stony bouquet. Wonderful delicacy without appearing in any way dilute. Drink from 2029-2035. Tasted Oct 2024.

Leave it to a Burgundian distiller to find a way to make their terroir driven gin even more Burgundian. Sab’s Le Pinot Gin begins with the house base of eau-de-vie distilled from Burgundy Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, combined with neutral grain spirit and an elaborate collection of 15 botanicals ranging from juniper and coriander to ginger, citrus peel, rose petals, grains of paradise, cassia, cumin and star anise. But here Mathieu Sabbagh goes one fascinating step further, infusing grand cru Burgundian Pinot Noir pomace into the gin for six full months. The result is a completely distinctive 44% ABV gin that connects the flavors and raw materials of Burgundy with a decidedly modern approach to distillation. The Pinot pomace brings an additional layer of fruit, spice and vinous depth that separates this completely from conventional London Dry. It is simultaneously recognizably gin and unmistakably a product of Burgundy, precisely the sort of eccentric regional spirit we love finding.

Sab’s "Le Gin" is a French distilled spirit from Chassagne-Montrachet in Burgundy. Presented in a 500ml bottle, it offers an uncommon connection between gin and a village internationally associated with Burgundy’s wine culture, placing this spirit within one of France’s most historically recognized wine-producing landscapes.

Chassagne-Montrachet, a Côte de Beaune village long associated with Burgundy winegrowing, is the home of this eight-year-old Fine de Bourgogne. “Fine” denotes a wine-based eau-de-vie, distinguishing the category from marc, which is distilled from grape pomace. Presented in a 500ml bottle.

The 2022 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Chenevottes derives from five-year-old vines, but you'd hardly know it. Exhibiting aromas of white flowers, pear, toasted nuts and subtle reduction, it's medium to full-bodied, satiny and vibrant, with a fleshy core of fruit and a precise finish. I've wanted to visit Domaine Marc Morey for several years, as this discreet Chassagne-Montrachet has long produced excellent wines that fly somewhat under the radar. Its origins go back to great-grandfather Fernand Morey, whose whites and reds I've adored and who presided over winemaking between 1919 and around 1950. The eponymous Marc Morey was his son, who ran the domaine for the second half of the twentieth century. Today, it's Sabine Mollard who presides, having joined the family estate in 2003. Fruit is gently crushed and pressed pneumatically, with a short and comparatively static cycle, followed by debourbage overnight at 12 degrees centigrade and the beginning of alcoholic fermentation in tank before barreling down. Working with a wide variety of coopers (including Chassin and François Frères), Sabine stirs the lees until the end of malolactic fermentation. Regional appellations see nine months in barrel, with the rest racked to tank just before harvest and bottled, under natural cork, in early spring.(WK)

Mid lemon yellow. Here there is an immediate impression of concentrated fruit moving into the yellow spectrum. Plenty of weight, even a bit of warmth, perhaps a slightly spirity feel from the wood. 50% new wood, being 2 x 500 litres. Harder to judge today but this should work out, and past performance of this vineyard suggests I may be under-rating En Remilly today. Drink from 2028-2034. Tasted Oct 2024.

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Joseph Colin has produced a Chassagne En Caillerets that is among the great wines of the village in 2024, offering pronounced aromas of lemon peel, acacia flowers, iodine and smoke. The texture is fresh and lively, but there is enough concentration and body here to allow the wine to age for decades. The domaine farms 0.40ha of very old vines (up to 100 years old) at the top of the slope, in thin, rocky soils. They are gently pressed and aged in 500- and 600-litre barrels (10% new) for a year and in tank for another four months.

Note: from 4 different lieux-dits. This is also aromatically fresh and bright with its expressive nose of white-fleshed fruit, more prominent petrol and a hint of rosemary oil. There is good punch to the finer, if not especially dense, flavors that possess both good detail and an attractive texture that carries over to the highly refreshing and firmer finale. This could use better depth so at least a few years of keeping is recommended.

The 2024 Chassagne-Montrachet Village is Niellon's largest cuvée, around 20,000 bottles, representing the entire appellation—10 different climats from 15 parcels. This is quite forward on the nose, with perfumed fresh lime scents intermixed with a touch of apricot. It is very… giving. The palate is actually more complex than the nose: fresh and quite edgy, well-integrated oak, nicely focused with a touch of pepperiness towards the finish. Well worth seeking out.(NM)

The 2023 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Vergers 1er Cru has a clean, precise nose featuring freshly baked popcorn and citrus fruit notes. It's quite charming, with hints of apricot in the background. The palate is well defined with a silver bead of acidity, yellow plum and hints of vanilla pod, but it has wonderful tension and quite a persistent finish. This vineyard performed well in 2023 and Colin is quickly becoming one of its best exponents. (Drink between 2026-2040) (NM)

The second year of this amazing acquisition. Mid lemon yellow. The bouquet takes a moment’s coaxing. There is a proper weight of fruit here, but still very young. The concentration of fruit is such that there is a tannic feel to the ripe white fruit behind, with good acidity. There is a very substantial wine here waiting to emerge.

Bid on this 2-bottle lot of 2007 Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Chassagne-Montrachet "Les Caillerets".

Bid on this bottle of 1994 Louis Jadot Bâtard Montrachet Grand Cru.

Glowing mid yellow. The bouquet is once again relatively discreet, but the sheer class of La Romanée expresses itself beautifully on the palate. This has more backbone than the others, even Cailleret, while the fruit profile has scarcely formed as yet. I am taking my time to taste this to watch it develop. A little barrel toast comes along as well. Drink from 2030-2035. Tasted Oct 2025.

Elegant and powerful, the Clos Saint-Jean from Michel Niellon offers pronounced aromas of nectarine, peach, and quince with notes of smoke and spice. The texture has surprising density, impressive depth of flavour, and great balancing acidity that carries the wine to an impressively long finish. The grapes are from domaine-owned parcels at the top of the slope; they were gently pressed after careful sorting, fermented in barrel (25% new), and are now finishing their ageing in tank.(CC)

Sab’s “Le Poire” is a French pear liqueur from Chassagne-Montrachet in Burgundy. Presented in a 500ml bottle, it offers a distilled-spirits perspective on a village internationally associated with wine, placing a classic fruit cordial within one of France’s best-known viticultural settings.

Note: from a .80 ha holding in Les Bondues. A background hint of reduction shaves the top notes from the ripe aromas of various white-fleshed fruit, citrus confit and discreet floral nuances. Here too there is fine mid-palate density to the equally powerful medium weight flavors that coat the mouth with sappy dry extract that also buffers the moderately firm, serious and long finale. This too is a very good effort and worth checking out.*Burghound Outstanding!*

The 2024 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Vergers 1er Cru has a refined and understated bouquet, the 25% new oak seamlessly integrated, definitely cut in a more elegant style. The palate is very well balanced with superb tension, racy and full of energy, dovetailing into a Puligny-like mineral-driven finish. Superb.(NM)

The 2024 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chenevottes 1er Cru is matured entirely in second-fill barrels as the volume was so small. This is far superior to the previous vintage with much more tension, nascent energy and vibrancy. The palate is vibrant and fresh, precise with a clever reduction, tensile and it builds beautifully towards the vivid, quite intense finish. One of Colin's best cuvées this year.(NM)

Mid lemon yellow. Here it is the weight of the appellation which takes the upper hand at the start, making quite a statement. One new barrel, and one 350 litre from one year old wood. The extra oak sits just fine with this wine. The fruit, tending towards the yellow plum, flows across the palate with weight and power yet also definition. Exactly what a top Bâtard should be, with no excess sucrosity.

The 2023 Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru comes from young vines that were brought back into action during the 2021 vintage. This has quite an austere nose at first, with touches of petrichor and lime flower almost reluctantly unfolding in the glass. The palate is well balanced with a bright, citrus-fresh opening. Cooking apple and Anjou pear take over at the midway point, leading to quite an intense finish. Afford this three to four years in bottle.(NM)

More the younger vines here, a mix from Clos St-Abdon and other plots. Fresh pure lemon in colour. More graceful bouquet than the St-Aubin. Clean pure white fruit, an attractive thread of acidity, and good length. Discretion and clarity. Drink from 2028-2033. Tasted Oct 2025.

Old vines with a younger plot as well. Mid lemon yellow. The bouquet has a discreet distinction, more in minerals than flesh, one jar again. Tighter and more precise on the palate, with a light ripe citrus note added to the orchard fruit. In bottle.

A much earthier nose reflects notes of pepper, humus and a mix of red and dark wild berries. There is both good freshness and verve to the acceptably dense and nicely detailed flavors that display reasonably good length on the youthfully austere and somewhat rustic finale. This is a wine that could easily be enjoyed young or aged to good effect for 3 to 6 years first.

They were thinking about pulling this plot out but it has come through the wetter conditions of 2024 very well, so they may keep it going. Clean pale lemon. The bouquet is quite reticent. Concnetrated white fruit, plenty of energy here, the fruit well married with the oak, fair length. A little extra here in 2024. Drink from 2029-2033. Tasted Oct 2025.

The 2024 Chassagne-Montrachet Maltroie 1er Cru has a very aromatic and quite floral bouquet, with enticing scents of yellow flower mixed with wild peach and just a hint of acacia in the background. The palate is well balanced with a pleasing texture, a little pithiness coming through, a dash of ginger complementing the dried apricot and orange pith notes. Fine weight on the finish, with more persistence than the Village cru, this should give up to 15 years' drinking pleasure.(NM)

Mid lemon yellow. Grilled almonds Marjolaine suggests, and I agree. Once more the flesh and the oak on the nose are apparent. All the requisite weight and white fruit, silky length, a little salinity, understated but very long indeed. Rather hidden at the moment.

The 2023 Chassagne-Montrachet La Maltroye 1er Cru is more expressive on the nose compared to the Les Chenevottes. It is flinty and slightly fumé in style, with lifted mineralité and plenty of energy here. The palate is very well balanced with a slightly more honeyed texture. There's ample extract here with grippier tannins on the finish. Give this time because this is a serious Chassagne, but the Les Vergers will be flattering in its youth.(NM)