Bouchard Père & Fils

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A Third of the Hill

Bouchard Père & Fils Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 2009 · Burgundy, France · tasted 26 August 2026

Bouchard owns roughly a third of Chevalier-Montrachet and is the only house with parcels on all four of its terraces. The domaine bottling, from a warm and generous 2009, seventeen years on — and the question of whether the hill's tension survived the sun.

The Ugly Duckling Year

Bouchard Père & Fils Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru 2004 · Burgundy, France · tasted 19 August 2026

2004 spent two decades as Burgundy's unloved vintage. At twenty-two, this Chapelle-Chambertin made the case for patience — quiet, lacy, held up by acidity that finally learned its manners.