Vinelights
Chambolle’s Wild Side
Les Fuées sits just next to the Grand Cru, Bonnes Mares, and you can feel it in the wine. This is Premier Cru with presence. A little wilder, a little darker, and beautifully composed. Adrien Guyon goes all-in here: 100% whole bunch, 100% new oak, and a plot that gets full afternoon sun up on the upper slope. The fruit is black and brooding. Blackcurrant, blackberry, and plum – wrapped in spice, tobacco leaf, and a flicker of liquorice. What keeps it all fresh is that pulse of acidity and the deep limestone minerality that drives the finish. It’s already impressive, but the future’s the real story.
📍 The Plot
Les Fuées sits high on the Chambolle slope, pressed up against the Grand Cru Bonnes Mares. It shares that rocky, limestone-rich soil and afternoon sunshine, which gives the wine its combination of dark fruit power and high-tension elegance. Adrien harvests with full ripeness, ferments entirely with whole bunches, and ages the wine in 100% new French oak. It’s the most structured and age-worthy wine in his lineup, and one that promises decades of evolution.
🍇 Technical
100% Pinot Noir from Les Fuées, Premier Cru, Chambolle-Musigny. Upper-slope site with limestone-rich soils. 100% whole bunch fermentation. Aged in 100% new French oak barrels. Bottled unfined and unfiltered.
