“I like this kind of vintage. I like a challenge,” winemaker Thibaut Coffinet explained at his winery in the heart of Chassagne-Montrachet. “I prefer vintages with a lot of wet weather over ones like 2025, where there is more dryness and hot temperatures. It was a complicated season. One of the biggest challenges was controlling the grass, which I just cut instead of ploughing. That made it easier to spray, which I did between 16 and 19 times. A slow maturation is better for balance in Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, so I picked in mid-September rather than August. There was beautiful weather. We finished with around 40 hl/ha for the Chardonnay and 20 hl/ha for the Pinot Noir. That’s okay for me. In fact, there was less in 2025 for the whites, which make up 80% of my production. I plan to bottle the Premier Crus in November.”