Meet Jennifer and Pierre Clair! I've long had a love affair with their wines but could only find them at my go-to wine shop for everything Burgundy in Beaune. Finally, Christian (from Domaine Dandelion) texted Pierre Clair to see if we could swing by to taste, and we cornered him and his wife, Jennifer, in their cellar during the 2021 harvest. 

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Pierre's grandfather planted 40 ares of Pinot and Chardonnay in Corpeau (the little town just on the other side of the RN74 from Puligny Montrachet) back in the '60s for personal consumption (as you do). Pierre took over this parcel in 2006 and has slowly added more parcels (in Corpeau and just southwest in Santenay and Maranges). Today, he and Jennifer farm 3.5 hectares total of PInot Noir, Gamay, Chardonnay, and Aligoté in clay/limestone and sandy soils - all organic and biodynamic.

They're super straightforward in the cellar - whole bunch, semi carbo to start indigenous ferment, elevage for 9-12 months in neutral oak. They add a tiny amount of soufre de mine (so actual natural, mine-based and not petrol-based sulfur) at bottling.

Pierre still works his day job as chef de viticulture at Marquis d'Angerville (previously at Domaine de Montille alongside David Didon), one of the pioneering “bigger” Burg domains in organic and biodynamic farming. So, Jennifer actually does most of the heavy lifting. 

Their wines brim with the post-rain, sun-kissed fruit that you could pull off a branch or vine in Burgundy, as well as that three-dimensional, whole bunch texture. They are also our smallest allocation (!).