Louis Latour Valmoissine Pinot Noir 2023

What makes this wine such a score isn’t just its quality but the approach behind it. Louis Latour meticulously selects grapes from trusted growers with holdings in the most esteemed vineyards within the Mâcon-Villages appellation. The wine is then vinified and bottled at their historic ‘Clos Chameroy’ facility on the outskirts of Beaune – the first purpose-built cuverie in France and still the oldest functioning winery in Burgundy.

Their revolutionary gravity-flow system (a unique railway with elevators) eliminates the need for pumping, preserving the delicate aromatics and preventing oxidation during the winemaking process. Combined with over two centuries of winemaking expertise, these technical innovations result in a wine that punches way above its price point.

While countless producers have jumped on the sustainability bandwagon recently, Louis Latour has quietly been revolutionizing eco-friendly winemaking for decades. In 1998, when most Burgundy houses were still focused solely on tradition, Latour shocked the wine world with their transition to sustainable agriculture methods and even gained a crazy hard environment certification that almost every winery in Burgundy has yet to achieve.