Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Les Grandes Ruchottes 2023 [NET] JULY42024 high-toned

high-toned

Touriga Naçional from Alentejo

a whiff of honeysuckle — without the Condrieu ransom

Pale in color

Most big-house non-vintage Champagne leans on Pinot Noir

Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Les Grandes Ruchottes 2023 [NET] JULY42024 high-tonedLes Grandes Ruchottes is a tiny Chassagne 1er Cru perched high on the slope one of the smallest 1er Crus in the village, stony and intense by reputation, with very little wine made anywhere by anyone. In Pierre Yves Colin Morey's hands, the site finds its ideal interpreter: PYCM (a champion of Burgundy's lesser sung terroirs and the architect of a less oaky, no stirring, early picked, reductive white Burgundy style that Jancis once called 'making