Producer Notes Family owned since 1880, Domaine Drouhin is a very well regarded Burgundian negociant-producer based in central Beaune. They are dominant land-owners with many Premier Cru and Grand Cru vineyard holdings, all producing excellent quality wines from Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Interestingly, the property produce all of their wines using Biodynamic methods and as

Producer Notes As usual, the French Revolution comes into this. The domaine is a collection of vineyards once belonging to the French royal family (hence the Conti, whihch is a princedom awarded to younger sons to keep them busy) and some more vineyards ‘obtained’ by a Napoleonic general after the revolution. But to cut a

Producer Notes Domaine Francois Raveneau is the premier producer in Chablis and, since his (Jean now, not Francois) wines are as good quality as those anywhere in the Cote d’Or but restricted by Chablis price-limits, they are as good a buy as any other Chardonnay in the world. Don’t always be fooled by the classification