Appellation: Monthelie Cuvée: Les Toisières Colour: White Grapes: Chardonnay About: Andres always wanted a strip of Monthelie that just borders on Meursault and after searching for many years found it through a friend who Andrew didn’t know actually had such a strip. Just 5% of Monthelie is white but this strip is on the Meursault … Continue reading Le Grappin Monthelie Blanc Les Toisières
Appellation: Beaune Premier Cru Cuvée: Les Grèves Colour: White Grapes: Chardonnay About: Only 1% of Beaune Premier Cru Les Grèves is white so this makes it very special. There are only five producers left of Les Grèves white. The producer’s home base is in Chassagne and he gives every bit as much care to this … Continue reading Le Grappin Beaune Premier Cru Les Grèves Blanc
Appellation: Mâcon-Villages Cuvée: Colour: White Grapes: Chardonnay About: Andrew’s wanted to do a Mâcon but only a “fat” Mâcon, so he looked high and low for some old vines that were grown for sparkling or Cremant wine, built for acidity, but old vine so would give richness, so as to combine Macon tropicality with acidity. … Continue reading Du Grappin Mâcon-Villages
Who: Andrew and Emma Nielsen What: Savigny Les Beaune, Beaune, Monthelie, Mâcon-Villages, Fleurie and more Where: Meloisey When: Since 2011 “My vision for Le Grappin is to seek out special sites in the over-looked, under-appreciated reaches of Burgundy, that tell a story. I search out viticulteurs as maniacal as me, who tend their vines throughout … Continue reading Le Grappin
Appellation: Vin de France Cuvée: Corenthin Colour: White Grapes: Chardonnay About: Fred’s more experimental and more marvellous white wine. From older vines than the O’Blanc. Sometimes with some skin contact for different aromatics and texture, albeit the exception rather than the rule. Always aged in one or two 450L old oak barrels. Sometimes a blend … Continue reading Frédéric Aublanc Corenthin VDF
Appellation: Vin de France Cuvée: O’Blanc Colour: White Grapes: Chardonnay About: One of those “mere” Vin de France that is in many ways finer, and more rewarding, than an Appellation wine. Of course this could be Beaujolais Blanc but to what end? This is more Burgundy perhaps, richly textured and with a sappy vegetal character. … Continue reading Frédéric Aublanc O’Blanc VDF
Who: Frédéric Aublanc What: Vin de France and Brouilly Where: Quincié When: Since 1950s It took a chance introduction from Pierre Michelland of Domaine la Realtière by way of a bottle offered to reveal this under the radar producer to us in the summer of 2020. Fred is based high the end of a winding … Continue reading Domaine Frédéric Aublanc
