2024 Domaine Jean Marc Pillot Montagny 1er Cru Les Gouresses

A Chassagne Montrachet domaine making Montagny is unusual, and Jean Marc Pillot treats this 1er Cru exactly as he does his Cote de Beaune whites. The fruit comes from a friend's parcel of vines more than a century old in Les Gouresses, a well placed 1er Cru in Montagny, the white only appellation at the southern end of the Cote Chalonnaise. A Montagny grower might keep a wine like this in tank. Pillot gives it 18 months of elevage in previously used barrels, the same length of time his Chassagnes receive, and adds no new oak. The very old vines give it real concentration, while the cut and stony character typical of Montagny comes through. Jean Marc is the fourth generation of his branch of the Pillot family in Chassagne and has run the estate since 1991, now with his son Antonin.