Pillot works with just 0.26 hectares of 30-plus-year-old vines in this ‘island’ of a vineyard, high up on the slope. This is one of Chassagne’s highest sites, above Les Grandes Ruchottes and around the same level as La Romanée. It’s a first-rate terroir, one of the finest in the commune, and on the same sweeping band of rocky terres blanches soil that flows north towards the Grand Cru vineyards. In fact, there’s next to no soil here with the vines planted “directly on the rock” to use Thierry Pillot’s words. It’s the Chassagne terroir that arguably gives the most Puligny-style wines, with more floral aromatics and a taut, cool structure. This is precisely what you get in 2022—it’s super floral and citrusy with the sweet core of the vintage. The complexity and the length remind us of the greatness of this site!