Patrick Piuze, Chardonnay, Petit Chablis, Burgundy, France 2025

From a parcel near 1er Cru Vau de Vay, grown on Portlandian limestone. Patrick Piuze, a Montreal native, took the region by storm when he arrived over decade ago. As for technique, he is a maverick. While 90% of Chablis is machine-harvested, he has a team of 70 harvesters, a paramount factor in the quality of his wines. Piuze works with seventeen different growers, purchasing fruit from approximately 25 hectares, and his great relationships with the growers of Chablis have allowed him access to choice parcels in all of the great sites. While most vintners make one blended cuvée from mixed sites for their villages wine, Patrick obsessively crafts no fewer than eleven different villages-level wines, each giving a distinctive expression of terroir. To make wines this way, Patrick has become a walking encyclopedia of the terroir of the area.