Santenay Premier Cru 'La Maladière' Vieilles Vignes Rouge, Domaine Benoit Girardin, 2024

Est. delivery in 2027

"More limestone influence.
Distinctly different from the rest: mineral, crunchy and precise, finishing rounder and more meaty. Lean, elegant and well-defined."
Ksenia Pashkova, Club Merchandiser

All the 2024s were tasted from tank, with nothing fined or bottled at the time. Harvest ran from 7–17 September, starting with the reds and finishing with the whites. Yields were healthy for Chardonnay, more modest for Pinot Noir, and the vintage sits stylistically between 2021 and 2022 in terms of concentration.

The approach is straightforward and low-intervention. Reds are neither fined nor filtered, extraction is controlled, and the wines favour clarity and freshness over density. Even at this early stage, there’s a clear distinction between clay-driven richness and limestone-led tension across the range.