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Domaine Guillot-Broux - Cruzille, Mâco

Established in 1978 by Jean Guillot and his wife, Jacqueline Broux, the domaine is now run by the second generation of the family, brothers Patrice and Emmanuel Guillot.  They have organically farmed their 17ha of vines from the beginning.  These are some of the best wines of the Mâconnais and one of our favorites.  Not sure why these last few bottles haven't been snapped up...

Macon Cruzille 'Clos de la Mollepierre'
Just .85ha planted in the clay/limestone soils.  This vineyard had been abandoned since phylloxera. It took them almost 10 years to get the soils prepped and the vines planted, being careful not to damaged the 2m tall dry stone walls from the days when it was owned by the Abbey of Cluny. The first vintage was 2015 and it's consistently one of the highest scoring wines they make.

Macon Cruzille ‘Les Perrieres’
1.3ha vineyard, on Oolitic limestone rich in iron and manganese, making Les Perrieres their most mineral, ageworthy wine.

Pouilly-Fuisse 1er Cru ‘Sur La Roche’
A small parcel of 40+ year old vines - one of the first in Macon to acquire Premier Cru status when the Pouilly-Fuisse appellation was revamped in 2020. Along with Les Crays, it's the Northernmost 1er Cru in the appellation.

"As I've written before, it took me a few years to understand the wines of Domaine Guillot-Broux. These are tightly wound, concentrated whites, framed by chalky dry extract from low yields and intelligent pressing, and they take their time to evolve in the cellar. That's a far cry from the stereotype of the northern Maconnais—honeyed, facile, giving—but when you visit the vineyards, you understand. Rocky, sloping, enclosed sites at the forest's edge—some recently recovered from its encroachments and they've never seen chemical farming. Of course, opening old bottles also helps make sense of these wines: complex, mineral and sapid, it's clear that 20 years is the minimum rather than the maximum at this address. But the rewards of patience, as so often is the case, are considerable; and when you get to know them, it's hard to argue that these number among the region's finest exemplars." - William Kelley, Wine Advocate

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