Thursday Tasting — White Burgundy | August 27

Four wines. One grape. Four addresses.

Everything on the table tonight is Chardonnay, and nothing tastes the same, because in Burgundy the address does the talking. We start seventy miles north of everywhere else, in Chablis, where Droin's premier cru Vaillons grows in fossilized oyster shell and stays almost entirely out of oak: white flowers, lemon pith, and a chalky finish that makes your mouth water. Then it's down to the Côte de Beaune for the two villages that share the Montrachet hill: Fichet's Chassagne, the youngest and friendliest wine of the night, and Alain Chavy's Puligny, off vines past their fiftieth birthday, stony and restrained the way only Puligny is. The last glass climbs 400 meters above the valley floor to Blagny, where Louis Latour owns every row of Château de Blagny and this bottle has seven years of age on it — soft, salty, and proof of what patience buys. And two bonus wines pour by the ounce alongside the flight: a Meursault lieu-dit to complete the set of famous villages, and a premier cru Chassagne if you want to know what that step up actually tastes like. No reservation needed. Just show up.

The Lineup

• 2023 Jean-Paul & Benoît Droin Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons — $69
• 2024 Jean-Philippe Fichet Chassagne-Montrachet — $120
• 2022 Alain Chavy Puligny-Montrachet — $119
• 2019 Louis Latour 1er Cru Château de Blagny — $110

Bonus Pours

• 2022 Xavier Monnot Meursault Les Chevalières — $6 an ounce
• 2022 Alex Moreau Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru La Maltroie — $14 an ounce

Thursday, August 27 · 5:00–8:30pm · $30 · No reservation needed

What's Pouring Next

• September 3 — Northern Rhône
• September 10 — Sangiovese
• September 17 — Bordeaux

Same corner, same time, every Thursday.