Jean-Michel Guillon Gevrey Chambertin Les Crais 2010 Big Bottle a southeast-facing slope at 275

a southeast-facing slope at 275 meters where shallow gravelly soils at the top of the parcel deepen over ancient Ouche riverbed alluvium below

a rare old Austrian white

this historic clos in Chenôve was left out and its wine sold as Bourgogne

clinging quietly to the palate with virtually no oak imprint

Jean-Michel Guillon Gevrey Chambertin Les Crais 2010 Big Bottle a southeast-facing slope at 275Jean Michel Guillon arrived in Gevrey Chambertin in 1980, a former military pilot with no winemaking pedigree, and built a roughly 15 hectare domaine famous for its appetite for new barrels: by trade accounts, only the Domaine de la Romane Conti and the Hospices de Beaune buy more new French oak in Burgundy. Les Crais is a village lieu dit whose gravelly limestone soils bring lift and mineral tension to Gevrey's darker register, and in the Guillon