Domaine Ghislaine Barthod Bourgogne Blanc Les Gravièrs 2022

Surprise, surprise! 2022 marks our first allocation of Barthod’s Bourgogne Blanc. In the mid-to-late 2010s, Ghislaine and Clément planted a 0.5-hectare parcel under Chambolle-Musigny to Chardonnay, thereby giving the estate its first-ever commercially available white wine (the domaine has made a tiny volume of white from old vines of Pinot Beurot and Chardonnay in Chambolle for many years, but that wine is not sold on the market). The Les Gravières vines lie in Gilly-lès-Cîteaux, close to the domaine’s Les Bon Batons vineyard that supplies Barthod’s Bourgogne Rouge. The name points to the stony nature of the vineyard, and the 2020 harvest marked the wine’s first release. Clément has now settled on an ageing regime of 50% used 500-litre oak barrels—with weekly bâtonnage—and 50% terracotta jar.