Saint-Aubin to Puligny: over the Montrachet hill
A line from Les Frionnes, across the Saint-Aubin valley, over the crest at the Murgers des Dents de Chien and down through Les Folatières to Puligny. Tap a layer to read it.
Swipe the plate sideways to see the whole section.
Seen from above, on the same scale: the section is cut along the line A–A′. Premiers and grands crus in coloured pencil; the vineyards we pour from in ochre. Vineyards: INAO, Délimitation parcellaire des AOC viticoles (2026), Licence Ouverte 2.0.
Schematic. The line runs almost due east. La Garenne lies 450 m north of it and En Créot 450 m north on the Saint-Aubin side; Sous Roche Dumay 200 m north of Sur Gamay. Le Montrachet and Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet lie 0.8 to 1.2 km south on the same hill, and Chassagne beyond; their wines are listed here without pins. Beds are drawn flat across the hill; the Argovian cap on the crest follows merchant and grower descriptions of the Murgers, to be checked against the BRGM 1:50,000 sheet for Beaune. Les Murgers des Dents de Chien sits on the line between Sur Gamay and La Garenne; it is shown on the plan.
7 layers, youngest at the top
Single vineyards we pour from. Tap one on the plate.
Why one hill gives two kinds of white
- The same hard Bathonian limestone sits under both faces, close to the surface, with very little soil.
- Saint-Aubin's premiers crus face south and south-east into a side valley, higher and cooler: tauter, more saline.
- Puligny's face looks east to the plain; Les Folatières and La Garenne climb steeply toward Blagny over thin, stony ground.
- The crest is capped with white marl. Lower down, Le Montrachet and its neighbours sit where the slope, the rock and the warmth come together.
Did you knowSaint-Aubin's Murgers des Dents de Chien is named for the limestone teeth that poke through the soil. It sits just over the crest from Chevalier-Montrachet.
Pas Mal wines on this ground
Saint-Aubin premiers crus
- Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Les FrionnesDomaine Hubert Lamy
- Saint-Aubin 1er Cru En CréotDomaine Moingeon
- Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Sur GamayDomaine Moingeon
- Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Vieilles VignesDomaine Moingeon
- Saint-Aubin 1er Cru Sous Roche DumayDomaine Pierre Brisset
Puligny-Montrachet and Blagny
- Puligny-MontrachetDomaine Arnaud Germain
- Blagny Rouge TrézanDomaine Moingeon
- Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru La GarenneDomaine Moingeon
- Puligny-Montrachet Les FolatièresDomaine Vincent Bouzereau
Chassagne and Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet, to the south
- Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru Haute DensitéDomaine Hubert Lamy
- Chassagne-MontrachetDomaine Vincent Bouzereau
Sources: Becky Wasserman & Co., Hubert Lamy pages; Decanter, Saint-Aubin profile; Domaine Moingeon and Domaine Hubert Lamy vineyard notes; BRGM 1:50,000 geological map, sheet Beaune; INAO delimitation (open data) for the cru boundaries; AWS Terrain Tiles.