30 ns
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 10 to 25 years from vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted lobster with butter, creamy mushroom risotto, pan-seared veal sweetbreads
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jean-Marie Guffens and Maine Heynen's legendary estate, the '30 ns' (a clever play on '30 ans') is a monumental cuvée that encapsulates three decades of revolutionary winemaking in the Mâconnais. Sourced from the domaine's finest, low-yielding Chardonnay parcels in Vergisson, this rare bottling showcases Guffens' signature style: intense concentration, vibrant acidity, and profound mineral tension. Fermented with wild yeasts and aged on its lees, it stands as a defiant testament to the heights that Mâconnais white Burgundy can achieve, rivaling the grandest crus of the Côte de Beaune.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1979 by Belgian native Jean-Marie Guffens and his wife Lydie Heynen, Domaine Guffens-Heynen is located in the picturesque village of Vergisson in Burgundy's Mâconnais region. Widely regarded as a revolutionary visionary, Guffens transformed the reputation of southern Burgundy through uncompromising vineyard husbandry, rigorous manual selections involving multiple passes ('tries') during harvest, and precise, non-interventionist cellar practices. The domaine is world-renowned for crafting extraordinarily concentrated, mineral-rich, and age-worthy white Burgundies from iconic lieu-dits such as En Chavigne and La Roche in Pouilly-Fuissé and Mâcon-Pierreclos, regularly rivaling the finest Grand Crus of the Côte de Beaune.
🍇 Grape Varieties
Chardonnay