Les Trois C.
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 3–12 years from the vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
creamy mushroom risotto, roasted poultry, grilled lobster
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by the iconoclastic Jean-Marie Guffens, 'Les Trois C.' is a brilliant testament to his rebellious genius and masterly blending skills. This rare cuvée brings together Chardonnay from three of the estate's prized plots starting with the letter 'C' (including the legendary En Chavigne in Vergisson). Rather than conforming to rigid single-vineyard designations, Guffens blends these distinct terroirs to achieve a spectacular synergy of richness, vibrant acidity, and intense limestone minerality. Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged on its fine lees, the wine showcases the signature Guffens style: power married to breathtaking tension, with notes of citrus oil, white peach, crushed stones, and subtle toasted spice.
🍾 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