| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | France > Burgundy > Mâconnais |
| Colour | White |
| Type | Still |
The 2024 Mâcon-Pierreclos Tri de Chavigne has turned out beautifully, offering up aromas of pear, clear honey, white flowers and freshly baked bread. Medium-bodied, satiny and seamless, it's ample and fleshy for the vintage, with lively acids and a saline finish. This contains the wine produced from the parcels that are sometimes bottled separately as Juliette et Les Vieilles
This is the flagship of the Domaine Guffens-Heynen range. In 2024 the wine has benefitted from the inclusion of the Vieilles Vignes and Juliette that in some years are made into a separate cuvée. The yield of the Juliette was a miniscule 11 hectolitres per hectare in 2024. Furthermore, the younger vines and last pressings were relegated down to Bourgogne Blanc. The wine is the result of five separate pickings (or Tris) that took place over the month of September. Elevage was all in oak barrels, with 25% new. Silverish yellow in the glass, with peachy sweet fruit and toasted pine nuts on a nose that's succulent, layered and savoury. The palate delivers everything you could want and more, voluptuous fruit meets racy acidity in perfect balance that allows the fruit and spice to shine. Very, very young, this is already showing signs of being a truly great Tris de Chavigne. Explosive fruit, savoury spices, textural grip and more come in waves through the mid-palate, keeping real intrigue in this engaging, multi-dimensional wine. Tris de Chavigne is often the wine that defines the vintage for Jean-Marie's wines and here, the wine is simply outstanding, and quintessentially Guffens in style.
Jean-Marie told us that he had high hopes of making 2024s that were as good as his 2014s - but he thinks that they have actually turned out even better.
