Les Fairendes Rouge
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, grilled lamb chops, wild mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
While Chassagne-Montrachet is globally renowned for its legendary white wines, its historical roots are deeply tied to Pinot Noir. The Premier Cru climat of 'Les Fairendes'—located within the northern portion of the famed Morgeot vineyard—boasts a unique terroir of deep, iron-rich clay soils over limestone, which is perfectly suited for producing structured and expressive red Burgundy. Domaine Jean-Marc Pillot crafts this rare red Premier Cru with meticulous care, utilizing traditional fermentation and aging in French oak barrels. The result is a wine that beautifully balances the rustic, earthy depth of Chassagne's red-soil terroir with the elegant, bright red-fruit character and precise minerality that defines the Pillot style.
🍾 About the Producer
Tracing its viticultural heritage to Jean-Baptiste Pillot in 1910, Domaine Jean-Marc Pillot is anchored in the revered limestone-clay soils of Chassagne-Montrachet. Jean-Marc took the helm in 1991, shifting away from selling fruit to négociants toward crafting expressive, domaine-bottled wines, joined in recent years by his son Antonin. Today encompassing approximately 12 to 15 hectares across Chassagne, Puligny-Montrachet, Meursault, and Santenay, the estate practices organic vineyard cultivation with rigorous soil plowing, yield control, and hand harvesting. Whites are pneumatically pressed as whole clusters, fermented with native yeasts, and matured on fine lees for 12 months in French oak barrels (around 30% new) before spending six months settling in stainless steel. The estate notably maintains an unusually strong commitment to red Chassagne-Montrachet alongside pristine Premier Cru whites, headlined by the benchmark, centenarian-vine Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Vergers 'Clos Saint Marc'.
🍇 Grapes
Pinot Noir
🍷 ABV
13-13.5%