White peach, citrus, crushed stone, and a quiet, persistent minerality — understated and precise with just enough oak to frame it. 100% Chardonnay from two parcels in Corgoloin, one of which sits alongside the village soccer field. Aged with about 20% new oak. Farmed without chemicals. Estimated 250-300 cases produced. Didier Fornerol's final vintage. Sixteen years learning under Jean-Pierre de Smet at l'Arlot, twenty-five years applying it to a forgotten corner of the Côte de Nuits where no Premier or Grand Cru exists — just honest vines on the same slope as the famous communes, in the gap between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Corton. A sommelier once opened a 2001 of this wine and the only tasting note he could manage was that it drank like a top Meursault. The vines are leased. When these are gone, they're gone
