Domaine Ramonet ★ 4.7
Chassagne-Montrachet domaine of benchmark whites, with holdings in Le Montrachet, Batard-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Batard plus top Chassagne premier crus.
Tasting: No general cellar door; allocation through importers.
Beaune family house in business since 1797, the largest holder of Corton-Charlemagne, with a reputation built on grand-cru whites of the Cote de Beaune.
Address: 18 Rue des Tonneliers, 21200 Beaune, France, Burgundy
Chassagne-Montrachet domaine of benchmark whites, with holdings in Le Montrachet, Batard-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Batard plus top Chassagne premier crus.
Tasting: No general cellar door; allocation through importers.
The reference white-Burgundy domaine, biodynamic since the 1990s, with prized parcels of Montrachet, Chevalier-Montrachet and Batard-Montrachet in Puligny.
Tasting: No general cellar door; the family also runs the Olivier Leflaive table and tastings nearby in the village.
Puligny-Montrachet negociant and domaine founded by Olivier Leflaive, best known for its sit-down tasting table pairing flights of white Burgundy with food.
Tasting: Guided tasting lunches and flights at the village table and a small estate hotel; open to bookings.
Puligny-Montrachet domaine of crystalline whites, biodynamic, with parcels in Batard-Montrachet, Bienvenues-Batard and a roll of Puligny premier crus.
Tasting: No general cellar door; allocation through importers.
Meursault domaine founded 1869, farmed biodynamically under Dominique Lafon since the early 1990s with full conversion by 1998, holding parcels in Meursault premier crus Perrieres, Genevrieres, Charmes and Goutte d'Or alongside a sliver of Le Montrachet.
Tasting: No general cellar door; sold on allocation. The family also runs Heritiers du Comte Lafon in the Maconnais.
Cult Meursault domaine under Raphael Coche, famed for flinty, reductive Meursault and a tiny production of Corton-Charlemagne grand cru.
Tasting: No public tastings; among the most allocation-tight and collected whites in Meursault.
Chassagne-Montrachet domaine of benchmark whites, with holdings in Le Montrachet, Batard-Montrachet and Bienvenues-Batard plus top Chassagne premier crus.
Tasting: No general cellar door; allocation through importers.