Aline's passion, vision, and the sheer quality of her wines leave a profound impression. It's astonishing that such exquisite wines are still so reasonably priced. Aline's dedication to her craft and her terroir shines through in every bottle. Now is the moment to embrace these wines before Aline's star rises and her creations become sought after on a larger scale.

Chazelle sits mid-slope on well-drained clay littered with limestone pebbles, facing east, and Aline's vines here are 45-year-old massal selections, the oldest she farms. In 2024 the wine fermented with indigenous yeasts and aged entirely in barrel, 15 percent of it new, a change forced by circumstance: a June mildew outbreak cut her harvest by roughly a third, leaving half-empty tanks and no sensible option but to move everything into wood. She worked to keep the oak out of the aromatics, and gave the wine an extra four months in the cellar before bottling in March 2026.

What emerged has unusual aromatic lift for Montagny. Honeyed pear, lime, and a little hazelnut on the nose, then a direct, tensile palate that opens through the middle and closes again on orange pith and skins, the limestone drawing out the length. When Jancis Robinson tasted it in January she wondered whether it could be told apart from a mid-range Puligny. Aline herself calls Chazelle her succulent one, and the fruit weight is there, but the finish is pure chalk. Drink now with a solid decant or through 2036.