Domaine Ramonet’s Chassagne-Montrachet Les Ruchottes is one of the estate’s signature Premier Cru white wine expressions, produced from a parcel in the Ruchottes vineyard on the upper slope of the Chassagne-Montrachet hill whose very thin, stony and limestone-dominant soils produce Chardonnay of exceptional mineral tension, linear precision and ageing depth. Les Ruchottes is regarded as one of Chassagne-Montrachet’s finest Premier Crus for white wine, sitting on the boundary with Le Montrachet itself and sharing some of the limestone composition and excellent drainage that characterises the Grand Cru terroir above it. From the Ramonet domaine, whose precise parcels in Les Ruchottes are worked with the same organic attention and careful harvesting that applies across the estate’s entire Premier Cru holdings, the wine represents one of the most mineral and structurally precise expressions of Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru currently available from any producer.

The 2022 Chassagne-Montrachet white wine vintage was warm and produced wines of excellent concentration and aromatic richness, and for a Premier Cru as naturally stony and well-drained as Les Ruchottes, the vintage’s warmth should deliver a wine of considerable body and aromatic generosity alongside the mineral tension and linear freshness that this specific parcel consistently provides in even the warmest growing conditions. Ramonet’s restrained new oak and extended lees contact approach ensures that the Ruchottes terroir speaks clearly in the wine rather than being masked by cellar intervention, producing a wine of genuine Premier Cru mineral depth and potential for medium to long-term development.

Les Ruchottes from Ramonet is one of the most precise and mineral-driven Premier Cru white wines produced anywhere in Chassagne-Montrachet, and a 2022 from this estate provides collectors with access to the domaine’s celebrated house style in a terroir-specific and highly distinctive expression that bridges the gap between the generous, rounded style of some lower-slope Chassagne Premier Crus and the mineral austerity of the Grand Cru zone above.

Pale gold with a precisely mineral nose of lemon, chalk, crushed stone, white flowers and a fine flint-mineral thread from the Les Ruchottes limestone soils. Medium to full-bodied with excellent natural acidity, fine mineral tension and a long, linear, mineral finish of genuine Premier Cru precision and depth. Best from 2025 through 2036.