2021 Domaine Jean-Marc Pillot Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru, Cote de Beaune, France

Jean-Marc Pillot typically makes two barrels a year from fruit purchased from his friend Blair Pethel of Domaine Dublre; Blair spent a year working alongside Jean-Marc and has generously allowed him access to a small part of his vineyard (a parcel formerly farmed by the Rollin family, our vignerons in Pernand-Vergelesses). Aromatically complex, honeyed, with wild herbs, mint and chamomile, the Corton-Charlemagne is massively scaledboth intensely mineral and nearly unctuous in its sappiness of fruitand its 50% new oak is all but swallowed by the wines sheer concentration.