2024 Domaine Jean Marc Pillot Chassagne Montrachet Blanc 1er Cru Les Macherelles

Les Macherelles is where Domaine Jean Marc Pillot's move to organic farming began: Antonin Pillot, Jean Marc's son and the fifth generation of the family to make wine in Chassagne, ran his first organic trial on this 1er Cru in 2020. The whole estate followed in 2021, and 2024 is the first vintage certified organic. The domaine farms 0.28 hectares of Chardonnay here, just north of the village and immediately south of Les Chenevottes, mostly from vines dating to the early 1950s, with part replanted in 1988. Allen Meadows of Burghound, the specialist newsletter collectors rely on most for Burgundy, has ranked 2024 with 2014 among white Burgundy vintages, in a year when mildew cut yields hard but Chardonnay held up better than Pinot Noir. Lean and stony by the standard of the house's richer cuvees, it is fermented in barrel with no more than about 30 percent new oak and kept on its fine lees through a long elevage.