Gevrey-Chambertin "les Platieres"

Jean-Pierre Guyon built his domaine from 1987 by acquiring Grand Cru and Premier Cru parcels in the Côte de Nuits, earning ECOCERT Organic certification from the 2012 vintage — a deliberate commitment that underpins every decision in the cellar. Les Platieres is a Gevrey-Chambertin village-level wine grown on the clay-limestone soils characteristic of the Côte de Nuits, where the combination of cool mesoclimate and old-vine massale selections consistently ripens stems fully — the biological prerequisite for Guyon's whole-cluster philosophy. 100% whole-cluster fermentation with indigenous yeasts follows a 4–5 day cold pre-fermentation maceration, then a 25–28 day cuvaison at 27–29°C — long and gentle, described by Guyon as 'infusion' rather than extraction. Cap management is performed by hand using a custom watering can, a technique borrowed from Dirk Niepoort, avoiding the mechanical shear of pump-overs. Élevage runs 10–14 months in one-year-old French oak barrels, followed by 3–4 months in stainless steel before biodynamic lunar-calendar bottling, unfiltered and unfined. The 'en nuage' technique — central bunch stems hand-removed by a 30-person sorting team — is Guyon's proprietary evolution of whole-cluster that no other domaine applies across a full range. The 2021 vintage, low-yielding and challenging across Burgundy, was cited by Berry Bros. & Rudd as a benchmark for Guyon's low-intervention style; drink from 2025 through 2032.