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.
Chardonnay
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…