Rouge
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, coq au vin, roasted lamb
✨ Technical Specifications
Domaine Jean-Marc Pillot's Premier Cru red wines represent a proud nod to the history of Chassagne-Montrachet, an appellation that was once more famous for its Pinot Noir than its legendary Chardonnays. Sourced from exceptional Premier Cru clay-limestone parcels, Pillot's red wines are crafted with meticulous care, utilizing traditional fermentation and aging in French oak barrels. These wines showcase the classic, rustic elegance of southern Côte de Beaune Pinot Noir, balancing bright red berry fruits, earthiness, and structured tannins that soften beautifully with age.
🍾 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%