Fourth-generation vigneron Bruno Colin is privileged to work at some of the most prestigious sites in his home village of Chassagne-Montrachet. The house style could be described as a classical expression of these great climats, offering Burgundian terroir with lovely texture, class, and precision. His generic Bourgogne blanc is anything but generic: aged in barrels alongside his top growths, it delivers a blast of clean, pure, chalky Chardonnay fruit with plenty of complexity. It makes for a wonderfully approachable introduction to the great whites of the Côte de Beaune.
This is also fresh and expressive with its array of apple, pear and citrus zest scents. The succulent but agreeably punchy medium-weight flavours possess both good persistence and depth on the equally refreshing if perhaps not quite as dry, finale. This too is worth checking out.