This week, part of our team visited Burgundy to meet friends, business partners and also to sample the latest 2021 vintage. We stayed in Meursault, a nice apartment overseeing a fantastic view of Meursault Les Chevalières and we've spent a lot of time to explore the terroir and the wines of Meursault! Meursault produces some of the finest white wines in Burgundy, with nearly 400ha of wine producing area with 97% being used for white wines and the rest for reds. The wines of Meursault glorify the art of Chardonnay and nowhere in the Cote de Beaune does the Chardonnay grape do better than it does...

A legendary producer of Meursault making the finest drops year after year, Domaine Roulot has been consistently one of the best white Burgundy makers in the past few decades. Roulot established a distinguished style of purity and elegance which has clear differences in each of his plots in Meursault. Having farmed the vineyard organically since 2000, Roulot’s Meursault productions have amazed critics, professionals and collectors with its purity, depth and exquisite detailedness. Critics and writers have admired the Domaine and consider them to be offer some of the world’s finest white wines -“...a grower that has consistently wowed my palate for several years” – Neal Martin"The...

Vincent Girardin started his journey in 1982 at his age of 19 to produce wine from only three hectares of vines from his parents, later he extended the business by purchasing and renting more vineyards. At the beginning of his business between 1990s to 2000s, Vincent Girardin focused the Maison business by producing around 40,000 cases annually. In the last decade, Vincent Girardin has put focuses at quality improvements of the wines with a few aggressive changes, such as attained biodynamic practice in 2009, picking his grapes earlier to retain the acidity of the wines and less oak influence to...

Domaine des Comtes Lafon has long been one of our favourite white wine producers as they offer beautiful Chardonnay that are of very high quality yet still with approachable price tags compared to the other top white producers like Coche Dury, Arnaud Ente and Roulot. Comtes Lafon own some decent terroirs in Meursault and produce Meursaults of astonishing depth and complexity. The current owner Dominique Lafon started managing the Domaine in 1985 and has maintained the glorious reputation of the Domaine for over 35 years, making outstanding Meursaults from different sites from Grand Cru down to Village. Many of these come with long cellaring potential and we...

The eldest son of the honored white winemaker in Saint-Aubin, Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey set up his own winery under his own name after working in his father's domaine for over 10 years. Given his talent and influence from his father, he quickly made a name for himself and became one of the most highly sought-after labels in the world of Chardonnay. He applied new methods in his own domaine - using larger barrels (350-litre), no battonage (lees stirring) in the winemaking process and top his wines with wax - all of which aim to avoid premature oxidation as well as making pure, elegant...