2024 Domaine Jean Marc Pillot "La Chaume" Rully Blanc

La Chaume links Jean Marc Pillot to Rully through an old friendship: the fruit comes from parcels owned by a friend he served with in the military. The site is a large lieu dit of about 41 hectares in Rully, at the northern end of the Cote Chalonnaise, just south of the Cote de Beaune. Pillot raises it like his Chassagne Montrachets, with an 18 month elevage and a modest 20 percent new oak, so it has more weight than a typical village Rully. The result is straightforward and thickly fruited, with real minerality and plenty of acidity. Pillot is the fourth generation of his branch of the family to farm in Chassagne Montrachet, where he has led the domaine since 1991, now with his son Antonin.