Carillon 2024

Some producers earn their reputation with marketing. Jacques Carillon earned his with five hundred years of just staying put.

The Carillon name shows up in Puligny-Montrachet parish records as far back as 1520 — a "Jehan Carillon" farming vines in a village that didn't yet have a name anyone outside Burgundy would recognize. The family never left. For generations they worked as Domaine Louis Carillon, until 2010, when Louis split the estate between his two sons, Jacques and François. Jacques kept the family's core Puligny parcels, along with a handful of plots in Chassagne-Montrachet, Saint-Aubin, and Mercurey, 5.5 hectares in total, farmed the way his father and grandfather farmed them.

That's really the whole story of why this domaine matters: nothing changed. No herbicides. Vines plowed by hand. Pruned short, debudded hard, green-harvested when the vintage calls for it, all to keep yields low and the wines precise. It's the kind of near-organic discipline that doesn't show up on a label and doesn't get you written up in glossy magazines — it just quietly produces wine that tastes like where it's from. Critics keep landing on the same words for Carillon's Pulignys: focused, mineral-driven, understated, built to age. Not the loudest wines in the village. Just subtly precise with a whole lot of character.

I’ve written numerous times about the 2024 vintage and I feel that the Carillon wines exemplify this truly “Classic” style that makes this vintage so special.

Puligny-Montrachet 2024 The village bottling, but not a simple one: it's a blend of eleven parcels across seven different lieux-dits, from vines averaging 40+ years old — a small mosaic of the appellation in one glass. Burghound calls it cool citrus and white flowers with "a limpid, almost crystalline freshness," subtle minerality, and a long, chiseled, balanced finish. Quietly elegant, drinking well now, with room to develop.

Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru "Champs Canet" 2024 Champ Canet sits in the northern end of Puligny, just above Les Combettes and on the same slope line as Meursault Perrières — which tells you most of what you need to know about its character. Thin, stony marl over crumbly limestone gives it real cut, while the eastern exposure and that Meursault-adjacent position bring a touch of flesh most Pulignys don't have. It's long been considered one of the appellation's classic climats, the kind of ground that splits the difference between Meursault's richness and Puligny's precision. From 40+ year-old vines, Carillon's 2024 shows cool, mildly floral aromas, white orchard fruit, citrus zest, a hint of acacia blossom, and fine volume with real tension through a persistent finish.

These wines are the real deal and come very highly recommended!