Pillot managed to produce the equivalent of two and a half barrels of the 2021 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Grandes Ruchottes, and again, despite the low yield, the resulting wine is brilliant, exhibiting aromas of pear, orange zest, bread dough, bee pollen and struck flint. Medium to full-bodied, satiny and chiseled, with racy acids and chalky structuring extract, it concludes with a long, saline finish.

The 2018 Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Grandes Ruchottes is showing very well in bottle, wafting from the glass with aromas of pear, white flowers, fresh bread, Meyer lemon and pastry cream. Medium to full-bodied, ample and enveloping, it's satiny attack segues into an open and charming mid-palate. Lively and precise, this will show well with just a few years in bottle and offer a broad drinking window thereafter.