Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Boudriotte Rouge 2021 extra-brut-selection The Ballot-Millot vines here are

The Ballot-Millot vines here are 45 to 60 years old

Dominique Lafon has Burgundy in his blood

4% malted barley) bottled straight from the barrel without cutting or chill-filtering

more elegant style of Pommard than the village's brawnier reputation suggests

and raises the wine in mostly neutral oak and concrete egg — the same low-intervention care he gives his village and premier cru bottles

Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Boudriotte Rouge 2021 extra-brut-selection The Ballot-Millot vines here areChassagne Montrachet made its name in red. For centuries the village grew far more Pinot Noir than Chardonnay, and it was the global thirst for white Burgundy, not any failure of the reds, that flipped the ratio. Ramonet never abandoned them, and La Boudriotte, at the southern end of the appellation up against Morgeot, is the site that best explains why. This is 2021, a cold, frost thinned year that produced almost nothing but rewarded growers who