Domaine Michel Niellon Bourgogne Chardonnay 2021 CS20230718 located in the Hautes Côtes

located in the Hautes Côtes de Bourgogne area

A mature Saint-Estèphe approaching its twentieth birthday

and a whiff of spices and orange blossom

Pascal Agrapart calls this the crux of the village

Fewer people know they also grow Cabernet Franc on the granite slopes right around the village of La Pepiere and bottle it as a red

Domaine Michel Niellon Bourgogne Chardonnay 2021 CS20230718 located in the Hautes CôtesMichel Niellon is one of the great names of Chassagne Montrachet, a tiny domaine of roughly seven hectares whose grand cru Chevalier Montrachet is the stuff of collector obsession. Naturally, almost nobody thinks to buy the Bourgogne. That is the opening. The same hands, the same cellar, the same instinct for cutting minerality and unfussy balance, applied to a wine you can actually open on a Wednesday. It is now three generations deep here, with