Who It's For: Advanced students, Burgundy collectors, sommeliers, and anyone who has been building toward this corner of the wine world and is ready to spend a class working through it seriously.
A handful of villages on a single stretch of hillside in the Côte de Beaune produce what most drinkers consider the greatest Chardonnay in the world. The wines share a grape, a region, and often a producer. What separates them is the ground they grow on and the century of tradition around how each village likes to make wine.
This masterclass digs into the differences. Meursault and its richer, broader shoulders. Puligny-Montrachet and its sharper, more chiseled line. Chassagne-Montrachet sitting somewhere between the two. And the Montrachet grand crus themselves, where the wines shift from very good to something people spend a lifetime trying to understand. We taste across the villages and, where possible, at the premier and grand cru level, so the differences stop being abstract and start being obvious in the glass.