Domaine Jean-Marc Pillot is located in Chassagne-Montrachet, Burgundy. The 24 hectares of vineyards are farmed according to organic and sustainable principles by Jean-Marc Pillot, the winemaker of the domaine. The domaine hasn't obtained any certifications so far.

Jean-Marc Pillot makes one of the very best red wines from Chassagne-Montrachet Clos Saint-Jean.

The top wines of the domaine are: Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Clos Saint-Marc, Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Cailleret, and Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Baudines.

The Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Clos Saint-Marc 2007 scored 95, the Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Cailleret 2007 scored 94, and the Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Les Baudines 2014 scored 93 by the Wine Advocate.

Robert Parker's tasting notes on the Chassagne-Montrachet Premier Cru Clos Saint-Marc 2007: "From conspicuously high above Chassagne and the core Vergers vineyard and, like his Baudines, picked near the end of harvest, Pillot's 2007 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Vergers Clos Saint-Marc soars from the glass with grapefruit, iris, buddleia, tangerine, red currant, wood smoke and a pungent whiff of white pepper. Superbly concentrated yet elegant, vivacious, and crystal clear in its interchange of citrus and berries with salt, pepper, chalk and crustacean essence, this displays grand cru class. Satiny in texture, it escapes any sense of austerity even given its brightness and mineral cast. All of this concentrated and explosive flavor, Pillot is keen to point out, originates in fruit of barely over 12 percent natural alcohol, although chaptalized to 13.2 percent, just one of several features here that put me a bit in mind of great Riesling. Alas, there are only four barrels, but should you be lucky enough to acquire some of this, I would recommend trying to stretch it out over a decade."

Jean-Marc Pillot, the fourth generation vigneron, has managed the winemaking processes at Domaine Jean-Marc Pillot since 1991.

After studying at the Lycée Viticole in Beaune and completing military service, Jean-Marc Pillot joined his father, Jean Pillot, in 1985 at the vineyards. After six years of working side-by-side with his father, Jean-Marc Pillot took over the domaine in 1991. Mark Pillot made his first vintage in new premises in the industrial zone close to Chagny in 1991. His wife, Nadine, and his sister, Beatrice Pillot, also assist.

Jean-Marc Pillot built a new cellar and expanded the vineyards from 5 to 11 hectares. There are also a couple of négociant cuvées.

Jean-Marc Pillot's son, Antonin Pillot, has joined the winemaking business already.

The vineyards of Domaine Jean-Marc Pillot are farmed according to organic and sustainable principles, which are very common in Chassagne-Montrachet. However, the vineyards haven't been certified yet.

Half the vineyards are with white vines, and another half is for reds. Some vines were planted in 1910, which helps to provide the exceptional intensity of Les Vergers white.

The whites are picked manually, gently crushed but not destemmed, and then pressed. First, a light settling takes place at a cold temperature, and then the wines are transferred to the barrel for a long, slow fermentation at 15°C. The barrels are used for three years. A third of the barrels are new, a third is one-year-old, and another third are two years old. The older casks are always re-used for the same vineyards. Less-ripe years may get a little lees-stirring. The wines stay on their fine lees in barrel for 12 months before racking into the tank, where they remain for a further six months before bottling.

Jean-Marc Pillot makes his reds with a relatively long cuvaison - including a pre-ferment maceration of the destemmed grapes. The wines are aged for 12 months in barrel, with a maximum of 30 percent new oak, then racked into a vat for six months' ageing. There is enough weight of fruit in his wines to cover the bone structure.

The estate now makes around 60,000 bottles of wines annually.