Bachelet-Monnot Pommard 2023

This is our second allocation from the brothers’ Pommard which mostly hails from vines in Chanlins, a village lieu-dit that lies just above the Premier Cru of the same name on the Volnay border. The 0.25-hectare parcel of 40-year-old vines comes from Alex and Marc Bachelet’s father, who sold the fruit to négociants until 2011. At 400 metres, it’s one of the highest and steepest vineyards of the Côte de Beaune, which, along with the stony, chalk-rich soils, results in a pretty and mid-weighted ‘Volnay expression’ of Pommard. There is also a quarter from La Vache, a well sited vineyard that lies above Les Rugiens-Hautes, the wine fermented with 50% bunches and was raised with 30% new oak barrels.