The Côte de Beaune: Chardonnay's Spiritual Home

If the Côte de Nuits is where Pinot Noir reaches its peak, the Côte de Beaune is where Chardonnay achieves something similar, and almost nothing in the wine world compares to a great white Burgundy. Today's episode covers the southern half of the Côte d'Or: the white wine villages of Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, and Chassagne-Montrachet, plus the red wine personality of Pommard and Volnay, and explains what makes Burgundian Chardonnay so fundamentally different from every other Chardonnay in the world.