Tasting Notes
“The 2024 Mâcon-Pierreclos Tri de Chavigne has turned out beautifully, offering up aromas of pear, clear honey, white flowers and freshly baked bread. Medium-bodied, satiny and seamless, it's ample and fleshy for the vintage, with lively acids and a saline finish. This contains the wine produced from the parcels that are sometimes bottled separately as Juliette et Les Vieilles—though Guffens admits that he did bottle one hectoliter of the latter for his personal consumption.” 91-94 points, William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
Over the decades Jean-Marie Guffen’s predisposition for ruffling feathers may have, at times, overshadowed the significance of his many triumphs. Today I think people simply accept that Guffen’s straight-shooting style simply comes with the territory. Indeed, the bullshit-free universe that Guffens inhabits may in fact be one of the key reasons why he has become such an important and influential grower in Burgundy. Trying to make better-than-Grand Cru whites in the Mâconnais? What kind of personality would try such a thing? Only an iconoclast, able to see through the cultural straight jacket of his times and recognise things as they might be in an alternative universe.
There is still a great deal of poor viticulture in the Cote d’Or and there are many great and historic terroirs in them Mâcon. If you work to the highest possible standards in these latter terroirs, there is no reason why you shouldn’t be able to achieve greatness. Guffens saw this and he was right. Now others are following his lead. There’s no doubt that when the stars align, as they so often do here, Domaine Guffens-Heynen is nigh on untouchable.
| Product Type | Wine White Chardonnay |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Sub Region | Macon |
| Winemaking Practices | Minimal Intervention |
| Vineyard Practices | Organic/Biodynamic |