Bigotes
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted chicken, creamy mushroom pasta, grilled sea bass
✨ Technical Specifications
Frédéric Cossard's 'Bigotes' is a vibrant, natural Bourgogne Chardonnay that showcases his signature non-interventionist philosophy. Sourced from organically farmed, old Chardonnay vines situated near the prestigious slopes of Puligny-Montrachet, the grapes are harvested by hand and fermented using indigenous yeasts. True to Cossard's cellar practices, the wine undergoes long, slow fermentation and aging in neutral oak barrels without any added sulfur dioxide. This results in a white Burgundy of remarkable energy, tension, and purity, balancing ripe citrus and orchard fruit with a distinct, stony minerality and a textured, slightly wild edge that defines the natural wine movement in the Côte de Beaune.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1996 by former dairy technician and wine broker Frédéric Cossard, Domaine de Chassorney emerged from the high-altitude, limestone-rich enclave of Saint-Romain in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. Expanding from his core estate vineyards into an adventurous micro-négoce under the Frédéric Cossard label, he works across Burgundy, the Jura, Beaujolais, and beyond. Cossard champions a holistic, self-devised 'homeopathic' viticultural method grounded in biodynamic preparations and rigorous soil health. In the cellar, his philosophy is strictly non-interventionist and uncompromisingly clean, relying on negative-ion oxygen sterilization instead of sulfur dioxide. White grapes undergo extended pressing and long spontaneous fermentations without temperature control, while red and macerated cuvées see gentle whole-cluster infusions in open wooden vats, concrete eggs, or qvevri. Known for benchmark skin-contact expressions like 'Feel Good' and 'Rafling' alongside pure expressions of Saint-Romain and Savagnin, Cossard's wines are renowned for their electrifying vitality, textural purity, and luminous clarity.
🍇 Grapes
Chardonnay
🍷 ABV
12.5-13%