2021 Jean-Marc Pillot Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Les Macherelles, Cote de Beaune, France Fernet Branca released in December 2020

released in December 2020

Ferments 33% whole cluster at low temps

The first Bindi wine

and currently Cornell University’s Orchard and Research Farms Manager

but a bit higher up on the slope and picked earlier than the dry Riesling

2021 Jean-Marc Pillot Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Les Macherelles, Cote de Beaune, France Fernet Branca released in December 2020Les Macherelles sits just to the south of the premier cru Les Chenevottes in the northern sector of Chassagne Montrachet, immediately north of the village itself. Pillots 0. 28 hectares of vines here were planted in the early 1950s, with a portion replanted in 1988, and this cuve presents a remarkably stony nose, with focused, lean, strikingly refined flavors of lime zest and sea salt.