Chardonnay
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted chicken, creamy mushroom risotto, grilled seafood
✨ Technical Specifications
Frédéric Cossard's Chardonnay represents a masterclass in low-intervention winemaking from the heart of Burgundy. Transitioning from a career in the dairy industry, Cossard brought an obsessive focus on cellar hygiene and bacterial control, allowing him to pioneer sulfur-free winemaking without sacrificing precision. Sourced from organically farmed vineyards rich in limestone and clay, this Chardonnay is crafted with a philosophy of absolute purity. The grapes undergo a slow, gentle pressing before fermenting spontaneously with indigenous yeasts. Eschewing new oak to prevent wood flavors from masking the fruit, Cossard coaxes out an incredibly vibrant, electric expression of the grape, characterized by intense minerality, textured depth, and a signature saline finish that speaks directly of its Burgundian heritage.
🍾 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