Single-vineyard Champagne flips three centuries of house-style blending. From Anselme Selosse in Avize to Cédric Bouchard in the Côte des Bar, a generation of growers now bottles parcels on their own and names the plot on the label. The lieux-dits movement, what it borrows from Burgundy, and why the great houses have begun to notice.
Chardonnay
Bâtonnage stirs the lees back into suspension while a wine ages in barrel, building the creamy texture readers taste in Chardonnay. Here is the chemistry behind the technique, the oxidation paradox it creates, and why a generation of white Burgundy producers has been quietly putting the stick down.
The 2025 Burgundy harvest produced stunning whites and almost nothing to put them in. Allocations are tightening, cellars are thin, and the shelf is not refilling.
Two bottles on a wine-shop shelf in November of 2025, both white Burgundy, both Chardonnay, both bottled by Maison Louis…
The math is not arbitrary, the multiplier is not uniform, and the second-cheapest bottle is not the trap. How sommeliers actually build restaurant wine markup.
In the autumn of 2001, Michel Chapoutier walked into a concrete workshop on the eastern edge of Burgundy and asked…
Somewhere around 2011, a generation of American Chardonnay drinkers stopped ordering Chardonnay. The phenomenon had a name, ABC (Anything But…
The white soils of Chablis are not soil in any ordinary sense. Pick up a handful of the chalky marl…