100% Chardonnay. On his home estate in Charnay in southern Beaujolais, Brun planted Chardonnay in 1983 on the sandy, limestone-rich clay soils. The vines are organically farmed and the fruit harvested by hand. The grapes are destemmed, crushed and fermented with natural yeasts in vat. The wine goes...

100% Chardonnay. The fruit for this bottling comes from a single parcel called Le Murtet (not on the label) in the Boulards' home village of Cormicy, which lies in the extreme NE of the Montagne de Reim in a zone known as the Massif de Saint-Thierry. The vines are 60-80 years old and are planted on...

100% Chardonnay. Bongran is Thévenet's original home estate (Domaine de Roally, also in Viré-Clessé, was added later). Cuvée Tradition is its single bottling of dry white wine (in certain vintages, a sweet botrytized wine is made). The old vines are organically farmed and harvested manually and...

100% Chardonnay. The De Moors are masters of pivoting as required by wildly variable vintages in and around their home turf of Courgis in the Chablis region, and this one-time bottling from 2019 is the perfect example. "Clardy et Rosette" is a combination of two sites normally bottled singly, as...

100% Chardonnay. The name tells the story: “the mood of the times (or weather)” indicates that it’s the de Moors’ way to capture the nature of the vintage as a whole. It comes from 3-4 estate parcels in and around Courgis that thede Moors planted beginning in 1995. The farming is certified-organic...

100% Chardonnay. In the 2017 vintage, the de Moors made their first foray into premier-cru Chablis, in this case by purchasing a 0.82-hectare parcel in the Mont du Milieu vineyard (its name derives from it being a hill at the border between Chablis and Champagne). The parcel is south-facing and...

Jean-Marc’s only blanc de blancs, from five parcels of Chardonnay: La Justice (Vertus); Les Frileux (Epernay); Les Tartières-Porgeons (Pierry); Moquebouteille (Dizy); and Les Basses Ronces (Mardeuil). 2014 base vintage, blended with 20% solera reserve wine. The cold stabilization is completed...

45% Chardonnay, 40% Pinot Meunier, 15% Pinot Noir from seven villages: three villages in the Coteaux Sud d'Epernay (Pierry, Moussy, and Epernay); Vallée de la Marne (Mardeuil, Dizy, and Boursault); and from Vertus in the Côte des Blancs. Based on 2015 vintage, with 40% of perpetual reserve wine...

50% Chardonnay, 40% Meunier, 10% Pinot Noir. This is the same wine as Solessence NV but aged for three more years, for a total of five years on its lees (for the 750mls), bottled with zero dosage. Jean-Marc makes this for shellfish, seafood, and sushi. The aromatics are provocative, the body is...

100% Chardonnay. 2019 is only the second vintage of méthode-ancestrale white from Renardat-Fâche, made from a small amount of certified-organic grapes on limestone soils purchased from a friend in Bugey. Hand-harvested, fermented with native yeasts in tank, bottled at 6% alcohol, kept on the lees...

57% Chardonnay/29% Pinot Noir/14% Pinot Meunier. Each year the Tarlants make a single multi-parcel wine intended to encapsulate that particular vintage: the name Etincelante evokes the “glimmering” nature of the sunny 2002 harvest, "a dream harvest" per Benoìt Tarlant. From six parcels across four...

The flagship wine of the single-vineyard efforts at Saumaize-Michelin. They own a single 1.65 hectare parcel and the oldest vines are nearly 100 years-old. It’s located on the back side of the Roche de Vergisson, a very sunny area. The wine typically has supple fruit with dazzling minerality,...

Pentacrine is named for the small star-shaped fossils found in the vineyards. This is a blend of several parcels throughout Vergisson. Fermented and aged in demi-muids; floral with notes of strawberry and juicy pink grapefruit.

100% Chardonnay. Domaine de Roally is a newer but no less important part of the Thévenet estate, separate though it is from the original home estate of Bongran; both bottle Viré-Clessé AOC wines. The proprietor of Domaine de Roally was Henri Goyard, an old schoolmate of Jean Thévenet's and a...