Domaine Vincent Dancer Meursault 1er Cru Perrieres

Vincent Dancer — an Alsatian-born engineer with no winemaking lineage — became Chassagne-Montrachet's first organically certified producer in 2012, then systematically dismantled every convention the village was built on. Day-to-day stewardship passed to his son Théo in 2021, who carried the 2022 vintage through harvest. Les Perrières sits on highly stony, altered marl soils within Meursault Premier Cru, a geology that strips away any tendency toward richness and redirects energy into vertical, saline mineral tension. Horse-and-hand cultivation at target yields of 15–25 hl/ha concentrates that site character further. Whole-cluster pneumatic pressing feeds indigenous-yeast fermentation in a mix of 228 L, 350 L, and 600 L neutral barrels — no new oak has entered the cellar since 2019 — with no temperature control and no sulfur during fermentation; the ferment may continue slowly for up to a year post-harvest. No bâtonnage, no fining, no filtration, bottled under Diam 30 closure from the 2022 vintage onward. What separates this from any peer Premier Cru is the combination of near-zero winemaker imprint and a discreetly reductive signature that amplifies the stony, saline character of the Perrières marl rather than softening it with wood or lees work. The 2022 vintage is described as radiant, with Perrières among the finest of the year — floral, stony, and complex — with a drinking window that rewards patience.