Arnaud Combier spent two decades making natural wine across Beaujolais and Burgundy before most people were paying attention — he studied viticulture, put in time at Domaine Valette in the Mâconnais and Colbois in Chablis, then went back to his grandfather's vines in 1998. Today the estate is a three-way collaboration between Combier, François de Nicolay of Chandon de Briailles, and the iconoclast Jeff Carrel. The Bourgogne White is Chardonnay done the low-intervention way: clean, correct, and frankly over-delivering for the price. White Burgundy you can actually afford to drink on a weeknight.
