Soils are mostly limestone-clay. The Bourgogne Chardonnay is bright, light gold in colour with a rich, buttery perfume giving way to clean, intense fruit on the palate with an excellent balance between ripe, biscuity flavours, a steely, mineral character and a long, fresh finish.
Since 2002, Jean-Claude Boisset has transformed Boisset from a traditional negociant into a viniculteur, a cross between a viticulturalist and a winemaker. He hired Gregory Patriat, one of the best of the younger generation of viticulturalists/winemakers to revitalise the J.C.Boisset wines. Gregory had spent the previous three years working in the vineyards at Domaine Leroy, and still spends a great deal of his time in the vineyards. He pays the growers by the hectare, rather than by yield, in order to ensure low yields. He also prefers to work with organic growers, as he finds they produce better fruit. Unlike other Burgundian negociants, who tend to blend from a large area or appellation, he specialises in making wines from `lieu-dits` or tiny plots of vines, something which accounts for the limited production of most of his wines.