2022 Domaine Cottenceau Les Chazelles Burgundy

Maxime Cottenceau's family grew grapes in Montagny for generations, selling every harvest off to local negociants. Maxime decided to change that. After spending three years learning under Vincent Dureuil in Rully (one of the premier benchmarks in the Côte Chalonnaise) he returned home in 2018, claimed six hectares of family vines, and launched his own estate bottling.

'Les Chazelles' sits in the south of Montagny, where hard limestone bedrock sits just inches below a thin layer of topsoil. That shallow ground gives forty-year-old vines nowhere to anchor except straight into the rock. Cottenceau farms organically, strips clusters by hand, and ferments on wild yeasts. After fourteen months in French oak (just ten percent new), he rests the wine for another six months in stainless steel before bottling—a crucial step that locks in exceptional purity and focus.

The result combines ripe red cherry and wild blackberry with subtle herbal lift, fine-grained structural grip, and a stony mineral drive. Unfiltered, precise, and made by a producer known mostly to trade insiders, this is a rare window into Burgundy's next great star before the rest of the market catches on.