Appellations
Grand Cru · Côte de Beaune
Montrachet
Puligny-Montrachet · white · 8
Eight hectares straddling two communes, and the benchmark for dry white wine.
Under the vines
Mid-slope marl over limestone, deep enough for weight and stony enough for tension.
In the glass
The combination that makes it famous: breadth and precision at once, with thirty years of life.
Why it sits here
The commune boundary runs through it, which is why both Puligny and Chassagne hyphenated the name in 1879.
Commonly misread
That it is a bigger Chevalier or a richer Bâtard. It is the middle of the slope, and it behaves like it.
Names worth knowing
Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, Domaine Leflaive, Marquis de Laguiche (Drouhin), Comtes Lafon, Ramonet