2021 Bourgogne Blanc, Domaine de Montille

• Style: Pale, citrus-driven Chardonnay
• Taste: Bright acidity, orchard fruit, white spice, mineral spine
• Food: Shellfish, white fish, creamy cheeses, poultry, pasta
• Occasion: Sunday lunch, date night, aperitif
• Serve: Well chilled, now or within 5–6 years

In the Glass — Tasting Notes

Pale lemon and pure intensity define this 2021. Cool conditions stretched ripening, concentrating citrus, green apple, pear and white plum into a signature brightness. On the palate, orchard fruit and white spice—from 11 months in French oak—sit in perfect tension, lifting and lengthening the finish. This is Chardonnay grown in marginal conditions, where the race against autumn pushes every molecule toward freshness and mineral definition.

The Winery — Domaine de Montille

One of the oldest estates in the Côte d'Or, now in its ninth generation under Etienne de Montille, this family domain is built on serious principle. Hand-picked fruit comes chiefly from Puligny villages vineyards, with a fifth drawn from Le Clos du Château—a five-hectare parcel within the château walls with clay-limestone soils that build mineral spine. Grapes were gently pressed and fermented in lightly toasted oak (mostly old wood, just 20% new), then aged with malolactic fermentation before delicate fining and filtration. The domaine pioneered organic farming in the region in 1995 and has held full biodynamic certification since 2012, producing wines that speak to site and vintage without fanfare.

At Your Table — Food Pairing & Serving

Chill and serve this wine as an aperitif or alongside butter sauces, shellfish, white fish, creamy cheeses and poultry. Its acidity and mineral tension make it equally at home with pasta and risotto as with oily fish. This is one of the finest expressions in the sub-Premier Cru bracket—a reminder that France's greatest whites come not from the most celebrated labels but from the most serious estates. Vegan and organic certified, it sits alongside the rest of our Burgundy selection as proof of why this region remains the benchmark for white wine refinement. Worth opening now, and worth revisiting over the next five to six years.