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 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