Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Boudriotte Rouge 2021 SHELF Exceptional smoothness from seven distillations

Exceptional smoothness from seven distillations

all of it done properly

It's aged in a mix of old foudres and concrete

The result is medium-bodied

and this classic bottling pulls Nebbiolo from across their holdings into one gorgeously balanced package

Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Boudriotte Rouge 2021 SHELF Exceptional smoothness from seven distillationsChassagne 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