Winery

Domaine Paul Pillot

Thierry Pillot, with his sister Chrystelle, continues to produce benchmark, pure and intense white Burgundies at his family Domaine.

The quality reflects the impressive work in the vines (13 people working 12 hectares of vineyards), as well as incremental evolution in the cellar. Despite the quality and the ever-increasing demand, Thierry and his family remain as humble and discreet as ever: there is no Instagram here!

With each vintage, the wines here get purer and more refined. Thierry is great friends with Vincent Dancer, Marc Bachelet, Arnaud Mortet and many other young guns of Burgundy. He is part of a revolution that has been sweeping through the Côte d’Or: a zeitgeist being driven by a new generation. The wines of his father were always good, in no small part due to the quality of the holdings. However, it is strikingly clear to us, and regular visitors like Allen Meadows, that this invigorated address has well and truly kicked things up a gear and now bears comparison with the very best that the Côte de Beaune has to offer.

In the Vineyard

The Pillot’s farm first class holdings in some of Chassagne’s greatest vineyards; La Romanée, Les Grandes Ruchottes, Les Caillerets and La Grande Montagne. The Domaine also makes a stunning Clos St-Jean from the heart of the original Clos traditionally called Chassagne du Clos Saint-Jean. The Pillot family owns just over one hectare here—split equally between Pinot Noir and Chardonnay—and are, in fact, the largest owners in the Clos.

In the Winery

This is a young grower obsessed with freshness and tension, and alongside the superb density, courtesy of low yields and impeccable farming practices, Pillot’s wines deliver these qualities in spades.

In the cellar, the winemaking is geared towards preserving freshness: this is a Domaine obsessed with tension, and Pillot’s whites deliver these qualities in spades. Thierry prefers to crush his grapes before pressing (for lees) and there is no settling, temperature control or battonage. The grapes simply ferment on high solids and wild yeasts at their own pace. Large-format casks of 350 and 500-litres are the fermenting and aging vessels of choice. The whites are fermented wild and matured for 12-18 months on lees in these barrels, before six months in tank. The lees are never stirred, and the wines are bottled unfiltered.

Thierry Pillot’s red wines have really come of age in recent years, to the point where they now hold their own compared with the Domaine’s whites. Pillot’s friendship and gentle rivalry with brother-in-law Arnaud Mortet may have played a part in this improvement. The reds are fermented with between 20-60% whole bunches, and like the whites, very little (if any) new oak is used.

Where in the World is Domaine Paul Pillot?

Domaine Paul Pillot is based in Chassagne-Montrachet with holdings in Saint-Aubin, Puligny-Montrachet and Meurasult in the Côte du Beaune, Burgundy, France.

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Paul Pilot Bourgogne Blanc Chardonnay 2022

Paul Pilot Bourgogne Blanc Chardonnay 2022

Chardonnay | France, Burgundy

This comes mainly from a well-situated 0.6-hectare parcel of 35-year-old vines planted on a northeast-facing hillside just south of Chassagne. There is also a little Chassagne village fruit in the blend. The fruit is hand-picked, pressed and left to settle. It naturally ferments on lees for 12 months in small stainless-steel vats and older barrels. The wine is then blended and settled for a further six months in tank before bottling. This has always been a lovely drink, but today, the age of vin
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Paul Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet Vieilles Vignes Rouge 2022
This gorgeous old-vine Chassagne rouge hails from a single 0.94-hectare parcel of 50-plus-year-old Pinot Noir vines grown on the red clays of Les Grandes Terres on the Santenay side of Chassagne. The clay-rich soil has long produced some of the finest and silkiest reds of the village. The 2022 fermented with 50% bunches, bringing perfume and extra-fine tannins. It’s an incredibly pretty, floral, red-and-blue-fruited expression of Chassagne. It’s already drinking remarkably well!“M
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Paul Pillot Saint-Aubin 1er Cru 'Les Charmois' 2023
Both of Pillot’s Saint-Aubin vineyards lie on the east-facing hillside bordering Chassagne Premier Cru Chaumées. This is the end of the Chassagne hillside. The sites are separated from the rest of Saint Aubin by a small valley—the Premier Cru of En Remilly sits on the other side of this valley. It’s a very interesting part of Saint-Aubin, distinct from the terroirs of Domaine Hubert Lamy, for example. Les Charmois sits higher than Les Pitangerets, and although there is plenty of limesto
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Paul Pillot Saint-Aubin 1er Cru 'Les Pitangerets' 2023
As noted above, Pitangerets has slightly poorer and stonier soils than Charmois and produces firmer, more savoury wines (although in 2022, this difference is less pronounced). Pillot farms half a hectare of vines that are approaching their 60th harvest. Some growers prefer to label this wine under the easier-to-pronounce climat name of Les Combes. Again, this is a powerful, dense, layered wine that starts rich but tightens up as it travels across the palate, with lovely, sappy freshness and dr
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Paul Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet 'Les Mazures' 2023
The five-hectare vineyard of Les Mazures is one of Chassagne's finest village parcels, producing classy, textural Burgundies. With rocky, limestone-rich soils and a southeast aspect, the location is just under the Premier Cru Les Champs-Gains, which explains the quality and breed on offer! The Pillot family owns 0.63 ha of mature vines, and the wine they produce is a superb, textural and rocky white burgundy, year in, year out.“The 2023 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Mazures has a refined
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Paul Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru 'Clos Saint-Jean' Rouge 2023
Clos Saint-Jean is a benchmark terroir for the reds of Chassagne (in fact, it produces outstanding quality in both colours). For those who have visited, Clos Saint-Jean is the walled vineyard right next door to the Estate buildings. The Pillot parcel sits in the heart of the original Clos. This part of the vineyard is only 2.2 hectares and was traditionally called Chassagne du Clos Saint-Jean. At just over one hectare, the Pillot holdings are the largest, and are split equally between Pinot
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Paul Pillot Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru 'Clos Saint-Jean' Blanc 2023
As mentioned in the note for the red, the Clos Saint-Jean vineyard lies right next door to the cellars, and the Estate’s parcel sits in the heart of the original clos (i.e. the vines are surrounded by stone walls). The white wines here deliver plenty of texture and depth, courtesy of the clay-rich soils and mature vines. The oldest of these vines are now 80-plus years old. A super release of this wine. It offers great finesse for the vintage, yet remains deep and powerful, with a long, sappy c
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