Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Boudriotte Rouge 2021 CS20230713 Pink Champagne with something to

Pink Champagne with something to say

where the soils are sandy silt over black basalt near the river and nobody irrigates anything

The result is a low-intervention red that drinks light and lively

A way into the great Saint-Estèphe terroir at a much friendlier scale than its neighbors

Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet 1er Cru Boudriotte Rouge 2021 CS20230713 Pink Champagne with something toChassagne Montrachet made its name in red. For centuries the village grew far more Pinot Noir than Chardonnay, and it was the global thirst for white Burgundy, not any failure of the reds, that flipped the ratio. Ramonet never abandoned them, and La Boudriotte, at the southern end of the appellation up against Morgeot, is the site that best explains why. This is 2021, a cold, frost thinned year that produced almost nothing but rewarded growers who