You came to the right man, Hela: 'Montagny This appellation is named after the small hillside village of Montagny, and also includes Buxy, Jully-les-Buxy, and Saint-Vallerin. Only white wine is made here, from the Chardonnay grape, and cool white Montagny is seriously delicious, being usually well structured, fulller and fatter than some other whites from the Côte Chalonnaise, and often nutty, with flavours of honey and almonds not unusual. Montagny is the most southerly vineyard in the Côte Chalonnaise, and is small, with only 150ha under vines.
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