This is not just another small family domaine with a nice story. Jean-Baptiste Chardigny brought serious pedigree back to the estate, having spent seven years working with Domaine Leflaive and its biodynamically farmed vineyards in the Mâconnais. Those lessons now run through Chardigny’s own farming, with the family applying the same rigorous, biodynamic-minded approach across their vineyards for the past five years.

The domaine is run by the Chardigny brothers, working vineyards around Saint-Amour for Gamay and Saint-Véran for Chardonnay. It is a proper family setup: the vineyards sit close to home, the white wine cellar is beneath their parents’ house, and the work is split between small cellars, tractors, and a lot of very stony vineyard land.

That meeting point between Beaujolais and white Burgundy is what makes the range so interesting. In Saint-Amour, their Gamay comes from low-trained vines on remarkably stony soils, with pink granite visible across parts of the vineyard floor. Their style is clean and elegant, a hybrid of Cote du Nuits Pinot and elegant semi-carbonic Gamay.

Further north, the granite gives way to the clay-limestone and hard limestone soils of Saint-Véran. Their chardonnay sites tend to be situated in cooler pockets, giving a mineral driven freshness to all of their whites.