BOUARD-BONNEFOY - Chassagne

The Bouard-Bonnefoy family farms organically and sustainably, avoiding pesticides and herbicides (instead, ploughing between the rows), and using indigenous yeasts for fermentation. Harvest is always by hand. Grapes are lightly crushed then pressed in the family’s upright wooden press (inherited from the Bonnefoy grandparents). Juice is placed in older French oak barrels to ferment naturally (for both alcoholic fermentation and malolactic conversion). The estate uses few, if any, new oak barrels. The wines have minimal added sulphur if any, and are bottled by hand, unfined and unfiltered....and you can taste it. There is vinosity, intensity and complexity here, all at a very reasonable price for Premier Cru White Burgundy.