{"product_id":"patrick-piuze-terroir-de-chichee-chablis-2021","title":"Patrick Piuze Terroir de Chichée Chablis 2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis one comes from Chichée, a little village just southeast of Chablis sitting on a plateau near the 1er Cru Vaucoupin vineyard – with clay-rich, left-bank soils that give the wine stunning depth. It's a single-village bottling from one of the region's most obsessive producers, and retail runs about $50… but ours is under $35, with free shipping when you grab three or more. Easy peasy! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet's talk about Patrick Piuze, because his story is a good one. The man is a Montreal native who bounced around wine harvests in Australia and South Africa, ran the restaurant business back home for a while, and then in 2000 pulled up stakes and moved to Burgundy on a hunch. He landed at Olivier Leflaive, got shipped off to Chablis, and spent the next several years soaking up everything he could – pressing and precision from Jean-Marie Guffens at Verget, then a stint as cellar master at Jean-Marc Brocard. By 2008, he'd seen enough to go out on his own, it worked out, and he's now one of the most respected emerging stars of the appellation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes him a bit of a maverick is that Patrick doesn't own vineyards. He buys grapes – old vines only, from prime plots all over Chablis – and his obsession is terroir, so instead of blending everything into one village cuvée like most producers, he bottles a whole lineup of single-village wines to show off what each spot tastes like. And while roughly 90% of Chablis is machine-harvested these days, he picks everything by hand. He even uses an old-school vertical press because he likes what that first hit of oxygen does for the wine down the road. This is decidedly not a factory operation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Chichée bottling is 100% Chardonnay, fermented and aged entirely in steel tank – zero oak, so nothing getting in the way of the fruit and rocks. And there are a LOT of rocks here, since Chablis sits on Kimmeridgian soil, a 180-million-year-old seabed of clay and limestone absolutely loaded with fossilized oyster shells that you can certainly taste here. You’ll get bright grapefruit and crisp green apple, a savory streak of that ocean-floor minerality, and simply mouthwatering acidity. It's taut, precise, and endlessly food-friendly – and for under $35, it's a serious wine from a serious producer at a very friendly price. Load up!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFOOD PAIRINGS: Roasted halibut with lemon and fresh herbs will let the saline minerality and punchy fruits in this Chablis shine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"First Bottle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53228626280745,"sku":"1014600","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/2706\/8457\/files\/PatrickPiuze_1014600_FB_Rack.jpg?v=1783454385","url":"https:\/\/firstbottlewines.com\/products\/patrick-piuze-terroir-de-chichee-chablis-2021","provider":"First Bottle Wines","version":"1.0","type":"link"}