A&P De Villaine Bourgogne Rouge Cote Chalonnaise Les Montots 2020 vintage_2017 it's the best value there

it's the best value there is in Chablis and they seem to nail it every year

By 1990 they had started bottling their own wine from what's now 17 hectares of vines and had made quite an impression on none other than Jean-Marie Raveneau who introduced Olivier to Kermit Lynch who's been importing the wine ever since

he and his wife decided to settle down not in the prestigious Côte d’Or but in the significantly less pedigreed back country of the Côte Chalonnaise to the south in the village of Bouzeron

vinification in giant foudres and subsequent elévage in the same casks

A&P De Villaine Bourgogne Rouge Cote Chalonnaise Les Montots 2020 vintage_2017 it's the best value thereIt might seem a bit surprising that this tiny domaine is so under the radar unless youve met its owner. Aubert de Villaine (the P. is for wife Pamela) is the owner director of the Domaine de la Romane Conti (aka "the domaine"), and one of the most humble, unassuming people Ive ever met in the wine business. His day job involves running the most famous wine estate on the planet which hes been doing since the 1960s when he settled into the family