Louis Jadot La Garenne Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Chardonnay 2015

The French Revolution separated the great vineyards of Burgundy from the Benedictine and Cistercian monks that had cultivated them for centuries, and put them in the hands of the petite bourgeoisie of Paris and Dijon. Combined with the Napoleonic inheritance laws that compelled a split of assets between all children, this would result in the complicated web of vineyard plots that constitute modern Burgundy. With a multitude of disinterested Parisians owning a few vines in the Cote d'Or as their birthright, négociant houses like Jadot rose to aggregate their fruit and bring it to the world.

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