Deuxieme Vendange de Chavigne
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
creamy mushroom risotto, roasted lobster with drawn butter, seared veal chops
✨ Technical Specifications
The 'Deuxième Vendange de Chavigne' is a testament to the iconoclastic genius of Jean-Marie Guffens. Sourced from the legendary En Chavigne vineyard in Vergisson, this cuvée is born from Guffens' meticulous practice of 'tries successives'—making multiple passes through the vineyard during harvest. While the first pass captures the vibrant, mineral-driven acidity of the Chardonnay grapes, the 'Deuxième Vendange' (second harvest) consists of grapes left on the vine to achieve a higher state of ripeness, occasionally touched by noble rot. This technique yields a white Burgundy of astonishing richness, texture, and concentration, balanced by the intense, chalky minerality inherent to the steep limestone slopes of the Roc de Vergisson. It is a wine that challenges the traditional hierarchy of Burgundy, offering grand cru complexity from a Mâconnais terroir.
🍾 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