"Some of the most exciting wines in all of Burgundy"
2023 Guffens Macon Juliette et Les Vieilles de Chavigne

Jean-Marie Guffens makes some of the most singular and utterly captivating white Burgundies around.

For over two decades, Guffens' wines have been in my drinking orbit.  In my opinion, this notoriously provocative and rebellious winemaker is currently making the best wines to date. It's amazing to witness this from someone whose first vintage was 1980.

For many, the wines of the Mâconnais in southern Burgundy are second-tier. However, in Guffens' hands, the region can compete on the world stage. The wines of Mâconnais are often associated with a certain heaviness. The wines of Guffens-Heynen shock you with their electricity and fineness.

As William Kelley, the astute writer for The Wine Advocate, has said: "Guffens produces some of the most exciting wines in all of Burgundy; whites which unite tension, texture and amplitude in rare harmony." That sums up the wines well.

Juliette et les Vieilles de Chavigne is sourced from a low-yielding high-altitude site. The 2023 boasts explosive minerality with amazing tension, focus, and punch. It's an astonishing wine.

Because it captures the wine so well, William Kelley's tasting note warrants being quoted at length: "Full-bodied, dense and seamless, it's broad-shouldered and powerful, with a prodigious chassis of dry extract cloaked in layers of ripe fruit, girdled by racy acids and concluding with a long, penetrating finish." 

These are simply dynamite white Burgundies. Anytime that I can offer these, I'm very excited. 

To order, email offers@crushwineco.com or call the store at (212) 980-9463.

Ian McFadden
Director, Fine & Rare
Crush Wine & Spirits

Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media: "The 2023 Mâcon-Pierreclos Juliette et les Vieilles de Chavigne is even deeper and more muscular than the Tri de Chavigne, and more introverted too, unwinding in the glass with reductive aromas of peach, wheat toast, pear and toasted nuts. Full-bodied, dense and seamless, it's broad-shouldered and powerful, with a prodigious chassis of dry extract cloaked in layers of ripe fruit, girdled by racy acids and concluding with a long, penetrating finish."