Tastings are my inspiration, and my lust for exploring vineyards is often fuelled by these delightful experiences. Sometimes, they are relatively unknown terroirs, but most often, they have just been forgotten …
To say that Puligny-Montrachet Champ Gain is overlooked is perhaps what I would call a journalistic exaggeration.
There are many great wines in the Puligny appellation, and Champs Gain is one of them. Champ Gain is located high on the slope just under and south of the Blagny appellation.
Apparently the name of the vineyard has variations – Champ Gain, Champs Gains, Champ-Gains and Champs-Gains …
Ramonet Champ Gain 2022
enjoyed with Danish friends in
Maison du Colombier Beaune
Tasted April 2025
Puligny-Montrachet Champ Gain
The appellation and the vineyard
Get the Pdf from the official BIVB maps
The name « Champ Gain » means « field reclaimed from the forest ».
The soil is pure limestone. Very chalky and stony; a great part is actually limestone debris.
The Puligny-Montrachet Champs Gain is located just below the Puligny part of Blagny.
The vineyard spans 10.6977 ha and is located at 325 m altitude … i.e. around 70-80 m higher than vineyards like Les Pucelles further down the slope.
In my view, this is a complex and refined Puligny … perhaps not quite matching the best 1ers like Pucelles or Cailleret … but it has this refined minerality found at the top of the Montrachet hill.
A true delight in the hands of people like Ramonet and Arnaud Enté.
Wines produced on Puligny-Montrachet Champs Gain
Champs Gain is a big vineyard with 71 plots, and hence, there are quite many owners … some are owners while others are renting plots and buying grapes.
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