Tris Hauts Vignes
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 5–15 years from vintage release, though exceptional vintages can easily cellar for 20 years or more.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
roasted lobster with butter sauce, creamy mushroom risotto, veal sweetbreads
✨ Technical Specifications
The 'Tris' cuvées from Domaine Guffens-Heynen represent the pinnacle of Jean-Marie Guffens' iconoclastic approach to winemaking in the Mâconnais. The term 'tris' refers to the meticulous, successive passes through the vineyard during harvest—a technique famously used in Sauternes but exceedingly rare for dry Burgundy. By harvesting only the most perfectly ripe, golden, and occasionally botrytized Chardonnay grapes from his high-altitude parcels in Vergisson, Guffens crafts a wine of astonishing concentration and complexity. Fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged on its lees, this rare cuvée defies regional hierarchies, offering a majestic, texturally rich, and intensely mineral expression of Chardonnay that routinely rivals the Grand 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