BOURGOGNE BLANC

2020 Domaine Fernand & Laurent Pillot

Grapes Chardonnay
Colour White
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Beaune
Village Bourgogne Blanc
ABV 13.5%

From two plots, one in Chassagne, the other in Pommard. Ripe apple & stone fruits with a hint of honeysuckle. Nice feel to the fruit. Nice acidity on the finish. Good BB. Drinking range: 2022 - 2025 L&S (Nov 2021)


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A slightly more complex nose freely offers up its combination of various white orchard fruit scents with those of lemon-lime and discreet floral wisps. Here too there is good volume to the delicious middle weight flavors that possess a succulent mid-palate that contrasts with the punchy, clean and dry finale. This is a quality Bourgogne blanc. Drinking range: 2023 - Rating: 87 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jun 2022)

Made from one vineyard by Chassagne and one below Pommard. Pale colour with the lightest of green reflections. Gently perfumed, really rather stylish, perfect fruit-acid balance. Not claiming to be from a grander terroir, but really nicely made. Tasted: October 2021 Rating: 88 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Dec 2021)

Domaine Fernand & Laurent Pillot

The origins of the Pillot family in Chassagne can be traced back to the eighteenth century, when they seem to have been coopers more than vignerons. In the nineteenth century they abandoned barrel-making in favour of enlarging the property in Chassagne. Fernand and Laurent, who is the fourth generation, added to it again in 1992, and then in 2001 Laurent's wife Marie-Anne inherited half of her family's property, the Pommard domaine of Pothier-Rieusset, and Laurent and his father bought the other half. The domaine now stands at 14.5 hectares of vines across almost the whole length of the Côte de Beaune from Santenay to Beaune.

The Domaine is worked according to organic principles and are ploughed – no chemical weedkillers are used. They have also been members of the Dephy-ECO-phyto group, which works to reduce the number of treatments using copper sulphate, since 2012. In 2021 they began the process of organic certification.

Laurent has always managed to pack in a lot alongside his running of the vineyard. He has his own plane which he flies to all corners of France, used keep and hunts hawks, and conducts the Chassagne brass band as well as dabbling in Mayoral duties - on top of being a father of three, Anaïs, Adrien and Eugène. They are all mad about the alps and disappear up the mountains at regular intervals.

Laurent's eldest son Adrien has been travelling the world making wine all over the place for the last few years having completed his training in Beaune. Bringing back lessons learnt in Australia, South Africa and California (and from a stint at Lea & Sandeman), During harvest Adrien is now the one in the winery while Laurent takes charge of the picking team. The wines have long been L&S favourites in both red and white - they represent excellent value, and they age very well too, despite being attractive young. The whites are precise and pure, and not lacking for body and generosity, while the reds are velvety and juicy, beautifully balanced even if drunk young on their expressive Pinot fruit. The domaine was rightfully heralded in Decanter Magazine as 'an address that deserves to be better-known'. Great value and real pleasure across their range.

Read more about Adrien here in this recent Forbes article here.

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