Coche-Dury

There may be a couple of individual wines, but there is no single producer, that is more sought after than Coche-Dury. It is also fair to say that no one has influenced the current global zeitgeist of Chardonnay-making more than Jean-François Coche, with his reductive, smoky and intensely mineral style driven by long, slow fermentation and lots of time on the lees. The core of the production lies in Meursault and its premiers crus, but the Bourgogne Blanc is infuriatingly good and at the very top, perhaps of the entire pantheon of white Burgundies, sits the Corton-Charlemagne, at this point the stuff of legends.