Nuits-Saint-Georges "les Argillas" - Pinot Blanc

Jean-Pierre Guyon built his domaine's reputation entirely on Pinot Noir, which makes this Nuits-Saint-Georges white — vinified from Pinot Blanc on the marl-limestone soils of Les Argillats — a deliberate transgression from a producer who has never followed category convention. The marl-limestone subsoil of Nuits-Saint-Georges imparts a chalky, saline tension that distinguishes this site from the clay-limestone dominant across Guyon's Côte de Nuits red parcels, and that mineral backbone drives the wine's structure in the absence of tannin.

Winemaking follows the same near-natural philosophy applied across the entire domaine: indigenous yeast fermentation, no sulphur added during alcoholic fermentation, and élevage in one-year-old French oak barrels (village-tier protocol), followed by a secondary rest in stainless steel before bottling. The wine is unfiltered and unfined, with minimal SO₂ at bottling only, timed to the biodynamic lunar calendar — a discipline Guyon applies from Bourgogne Régionale through Grand Cru without exception.

What is genuinely unusual here: Pinot Blanc is confirmed in Guyon's range only as a blending component (~30%) in Coteaux Bourguignons Blanc; a varietal Pinot Blanc from a Nuits-Saint-Georges lieu-dit is an outlier expression with no direct peer at this address. The 2021 vintage — low-yielding and challenging across Burgundy — was cited by Berry Bros. & Rudd as a benchmark for Guyon's low-intervention style, with the reduced crop concentrating the site's mineral character. Drink 2024–2029.