Chavigne Tri 25 ans
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 10–25 years from vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted lobster with butter, creamy mushroom risotto, veal sweetbreads
✨ Technical Specifications
The 'Chavigne Tri 25 ans' is a legendary, ultra-rare cuvée from Domaine Guffens-Heynen, crafted to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Jean-Marie Guffens and Maine Heynen's winemaking journey in Vergisson. Sourced from the iconic 'En Chavigne' vineyard—a steep, high-altitude plot of limestone and clay—this wine is produced through painstaking 'tries' (successive selective harvests) to capture only the most perfectly ripe, concentrated Chardonnay grapes. Jean-Marie Guffens, renowned for his rebellious spirit and refusal to conform to traditional Burgundian hierarchies, utilized natural yeast fermentation and extended lees aging to create a white wine of monumental power, rich texture, and piercing mineral acidity that famously rivals the finest Grand Crus of the Côte de Beaune.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1979 by Flemish visionaries Jean-Marie Guffens and Maine Heynen, Domaine Guffens-Heynen transformed the viticultural perception of the southern Mâconnais. Spanning just over 5.3 hectares across the limestone-rich slopes of Vergisson, Pierreclos, and Davayé, the estate operates on a philosophy of meticulous canopy management, strict yield restrictions, and zero chemical treatments, strictly independent of formal certification regimes. Harvests are carried out across multiple manual passes to secure fruit at pristine physiological ripeness. In the cellar, Guffens employs gentle parcel-by-parcel extractions using a vintage vertical press, rigorous separation of press fractions (yielding his signature 'Premiers Jus' bottlings), native yeast fermentations, and extended lees aging in French oak with minimal batonnage. Benchmark bottlings such as Mâcon-Pierreclos Le Chavigne, Juliette et les Vieilles de Chavigne, and Pouilly-Fuissé Premier Cru Sur la Roche embody an unmistakable masterclass of dramatic power, crystalline acidity, and singular mineral tension that rivals the greatest white burgundies of the Côte de Beaune.
🍇 Grapes
Chardonnay