Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru 'La Boudriotte', Domaine Fontaine Gagnard, 2024
Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru 'La Boudriotte', Domaine Fontaine Gagnard, 2024
- 75cl
- White Still
- Chardonnay
- Organic
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Est. delivery in 2027
Fontaine-Gagnard is one of Chassagne’s great traditionalists, quietly producing some of the appellation’s most complete and age-worthy wines. Farming is resolutely old-school rather than dogmatic, with a focus on balance, density and longevity over fashion. In 2024, that restraint mattered.
The vintage was hard work. High mildew pressure, early harvest beginning on 22 August, and naturally low yields around 35 hl/ha for whites and 30 for reds. A hot August pushed ripeness quickly, but September brought dilution and freshness back into play, finishing around pH 3.3–3.4. The result is a vintage of crunchy acidity, dense fruit and classical proportions, more ripe than 2013, closer in spirit to 2010, though Burgundy has changed too much for lazy comparisons. Oak remains measured at around 20% for village wines and 30% for premiers and grands crus.
Domaine Fontaine-Gagnard is one of Tim Atkin's Top 10 Côte de Beaune White Wine Producers.
What the critics say:
"One of the most finessed wines in the cellar, this is like delicate lace covering the palate with all of its detailed precision. Charismatic scents of linden, white peach, Mirabelle tart, wet stones and straw rise from the glass and drift onto the palate. Racy acidity blends with mid-weight succulence and carries the graciously complex flavors into a long finish. This is the largest Premier Cru holding of the domaine spread across three parcels that climb up the slope and measure just under a hectare."
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