La Boudriotte
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, coq au vin, wild mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
While Domaine Ramonet is globally legendary for its white wines, their red Chassagne-Montrachets are highly prized by insiders for their rustic elegance and deep historical roots. The Premier Cru 'La Boudriotte' is a specific climat within the larger Morgeot vineyard, characterized by heavy, iron-rich clay soils over limestone. This unique terroir imparts a distinct structural power, earthy complexity, and dark berry profile to the Pinot Noir. Jean-Claude Ramonet employs traditional vinification with meticulous sorting, partial destemming, and careful aging in French oak barrels. This wine represents a beautiful throwback to the era when Chassagne-Montrachet was primarily renowned for its red wines, showcasing a savory, mineral-driven character that beautifully balances bright red fruit with forest floor notes.
🍾 About the Producer
Established officially in 1930 by patriarch Pierre Ramonet, Domaine Ramonet stands as one of the Côte de Beaune's most revered viticultural benchmark estates. Beginning from humble parcels in Les Grandes Ruchottes purchased in 1934, the domaine expanded its historical holdings across iconic Jurassic limestone and clay marl terroirs in Chassagne-Montrachet and Puligny-Montrachet, famously acquiring a prized sliver of Grand Cru Le Montrachet in 1978. Now steered by third-generation vigneron Jean-Claude Ramonet alongside his family, the estate cultivates approximately 17 hectares under sustainable, lutte raisonnée practices with rigorous yield limitation and soil plowing. In the cellar, low-intervention vinification emphasizes gentle pneumatic pressing, native yeast fermentation with minimal racking, and measured oak maturation. Renowned for Chardonnays of astonishing concentration, signature spearmint freshness, and profound mineral tension, Ramonet's benchmark portfolio spans Premier Crus like Clos du Cailleret and Ruchottes, legendary Grand Crus Montrachet and Bâtard-Montrachet, as well as deeply expressive Pinot Noirs such as Clos de la Boudriotte.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir
🍷 ABV
13-13.5%