About the Wine
Jean-Marc Boillot’s Puligny-Montrachet Premier Cru Champ-Canet 2022 is made from 100% Chardonnay grown on 1.1349 hectares of vines planted between 1901 and 1960, located above “Les Combettes” in northern Puligny at 270 meters altitude. The vineyard’s East/South-East exposure and clay-limestone soils lend the wine precision, minerality, and depth. Whole grapes are gently pressed, with the juice settled and fermented entirely in oak barrels, 15–30% new, using selected yeasts, followed by malolactic fermentation. The wine matures for 11 months on fine lees, stirred regularly without racking, to build texture and complexity. Bottled at the estate, this elegant and age-worthy white Burgundy has cellaring potential through 2040.
About The Winery
Jean-Marc Boillot was one of the younger generation in Burgundy who was determined to improve his family's wines. In 1984, after vinifying 13 vintages at the family's domaine, Henri Boillot, Jean-Marc walked out in protest, intent on producing highly concentrated, rich, and ripe wines. He became the winemaker for Olivier Leflaive for the next four years and at the same time produced wines from 5-acres of vineyards, bottled under his own label. The wines impressed Boillot's grandfather, who bequest half his vineyard to Jean-Marc. Boillot runs his domaine from his grandfather Henri Boillot's house and cellars in the village of Pommard. Jean-Marc's maternal grandfather was the late Etienne Sauzet, from whom he also inherited exceptional vineyards.
