Bourgogne Hautes Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled seafood, roasted chicken, goat cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
While Domaine Geantet-Pansiot is legendary for its muscular and deeply colored Gevrey-Chambertin reds, their Bourgogne Hautes-Côtes de Nuits Blanc showcases the estate's deft hand with white Burgundy. Sourced from the high-altitude plateau of the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits, where cooler breezes and limestone-rich soils prevail, this wine captures a vibrant, energetic side of Chardonnay. The higher elevation of these vineyards historically made ripening a challenge, but today it yields beautifully balanced wines with crisp acidity and a distinct mineral backbone. The Geantet family applies the same rigorous sorting and precise craftsmanship to this white as they do to their Grand Crus, resulting in a beautifully textured, pure expression of terroir that punches far above its regional classification.
🍾 About the Producer
Domaine Geantet-Pansiot was founded in 1954 through the marriage of Edmond Geantet and Bernadette Pansiot, beginning with a modest three hectares of vines in Gevrey-Chambertin. Vincent Geantet entered the family estate in 1977, followed by his son Fabien in 2006, expanding their footprint across premier Côte de Nuits climats, including Gevrey-Chambertin, Chambolle-Musigny, Marsannay, and the Grand Cru Charmes-Chambertin. The vineyards thrive on limestone-clay soils managed strictly under lutte raisonnée, eschewing chemical herbicides and synthetic fertilizers in favor of routine plowing. Viticultural precision extends to harvest, where fruit undergoes meticulous multi-stage sorting down to whole intact berries, termed 'caviar.' Cellar techniques feature complete destemming, an extensive ten-day cold pre-fermentation maceration, indigenous yeast fermentation, and maturation in approximately 30 to 40 percent new French oak without preliminary racking. The house style yields deep, concentrated, and structured Pinots Noir, highlighted by benchmarks like Gevrey-Chambertin Premier Cru Le Poissenot, Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru, and the distinctive Gevrey-Chambertin En Champ.
🍇 Grapes
Chardonnay
🍷 ABV
12.5-13%