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Maison Verget

Pleasure Need Not Be Expensive 
Maison Verget

"I am Flemish, I love purity." That’s how Jean-Marie Guffens, arguably France’s most influential white winemaker, once summed up his approach to us. He also clearly loves delivering great value, something he has done consistently throughout his long career. Excellent French Chardonnay need not be expensive if you know where to look and the new releases from Verget are one such place. The Au Sud Chardonnay 2025 is ridiculous value, as is the Mâcon Villages Terres de Pierres 2024. Then there is the Mâcon-Pierreclos 2024, from an area that Guffens put on the map, while the Pouilly-Fuissé Terres de Pierres 2024 gives you both the finesse and the power from the area that Guffens told us some Americans pronounce “Poossy Foossy” 😂. Finally, Le Haut de la Roche 2024 shows all the class and intensity of Premier Cru, from a vineyard that missed the classification only because of its altitude! Buy with confidence (or ask your rep for a taste)!

The Wines

Verget au Sud Vin de France Chardonnay 2025

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Verget au Sud Vin de France Chardonnay 2025

This wine comes from a number of vineyards in Luberon, the high country of Provence nestled between the Alpes de Haute Provence and the Vaucluse plain. For the most part, the wines fermented and aged in old oak barrels on fine lees for eight months. There’s some rich, rolling fruit for those who like their Chardonnay with something to hang on to, but also plenty of the classic Guffens purity, drive and rocky freshness. Value plus.

Verget au Sud Vin de France Chardonnay 2025

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Verget Mâcon Villages Terres de Pierres 2024

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Verget Mâcon Villages Terres de Pierres 2024

As always, there is serious bang for your buck on offer here. Terres de Pierres (rocky soils) is drawn from sources around Viré-Clessé and Charnay on Mâcon’s classic argilo-calcaire soils, with 20% from the shallow, stony terroirs of Pierreclos, Vergisson and Bussières bringing a chalky spine. Fermented and aged 4 additional months in horizontal stainless tanks without racking. Classic Verget, and hard to beat for the price.

As always, there is serious bang for your buck on offer here. Terres de Pierres (rocky soils) is drawn from sources around Viré-Clessé and Charnay on Mâcon’s classic argilo-calcaire soils, with 20% from the shallow, stony terroirs of Pierreclos, Vergisson and Bussières bringing a chalky spine. Fermented and aged 4 additional months in horizontal stainless tanks without racking. Classic Verget, and hard to beat for the price.

“The 2024 Mâcon-Villages Terres de Pierres is floral and exotic, with a medium-bodied, fine-boned palate and a chalky, mouthwatering finish.”
86 points, William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
“The 2024 Mâcon-Villages Terre de Pierres, which comes from younger vines in Viré (80%), with the rest from hand-pressed juice from other vineyards, is raised in stainless steel. It has a pleasant nose with red apple and light minty aromas. The palate is well balanced, quite peppery and grippy on the entry with quite a pithy finish. Enjoy over three to five years.”
88 points, Neal Martin, Vinous
Verget Mâcon Villages Terres de Pierres 2024

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Verget Mâcon-Pierreclos 2024

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Verget Mâcon-Pierreclos 2024

Sitting at the crossroads between the Mâconnais and Beaujolais, Mâcon-Pierreclos owes its fame to Jean-Marie Guffens, whose wines under the Guffens-Heynen label (mainly from the Le Chavigne lieu-dit) match the best of the Côte de Beaune for intensity and character. So, it’s great to see this vineyard now appear under the Verget label. This négoce bottling is made from low-yielding vines over 50 years old. 

The vines are situated on particularly rich limestone at the top of the hillside. Made exclusively from first pressings and matured in foudres for eight months, the result is an alluring, balanced white Burgundy showing notes of citrus peel and poached pear set against a zippy, zesty core of fruit. There is a hint of good reduction here, just a touch of struck match that adds complexity to the fruit.

“The regular 2024 Mâcon-Pierreclos is a strong performer, mingling notes of pear and bread dough with an attractive touch of reduction. Medium-bodied, lively and impressively deep and fleshy for the year, it's produced from old vines facing Le Chavigne.”
89 points, William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
“The 2024 Mâcon-Pierreclos comes from parcels with less limestone and more sand that tend to ripen later and was vinified in stainless steel. It has a perfumed nose with touches of grilled walnut and sea spray scents. The palate is fresh and taut, one of the more minerally cuvées with a positive reduction on the finish. Cellar this for three or four years if you can.”
91 points, Neal Martin, Vinous
Verget Mâcon-Pierreclos 2024

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Verget Pouilly-Fuissé Terres de Pierres 2024

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Verget Pouilly-Fuissé Terres de Pierres 2024

Not be confused with the Mâcon-Villages of the same name (Verget releases multiple cuvées under the name Terres de Pierres, which means ‘stony land’), this cuvée is a blend of both free-run and press juices from a rollcall of excellent vineyards in Vergisson and Fuissé. Les Croux (exposed to the west) and the pressed juices of the Premier Crus Sur la Roche and Les Crays bring the cool, mineral line; the south-facing vines in Les Moulins and Les Littes contribute density and layered texture. So, you get both the steel and the silk. The wines fermented naturally and aged in stainless steel vats (70%) and used barrels for six months without stirring. 

The most steely and compact wine so far, it’s a wonderfully composed white Burgundy with citrus and mineral notes, a rocky, tightly wound texture and a piercing, long, chalk-drenched finish. It’s a wine of great class. Wine writer Gerald Asher once said: “If luxury is never cheap, pleasure need not be expensive.” So, if the price of top Meursault and Puligny leaves you giddy, you know what to do. This wine’s typical depth, power and complexity will be revealed with time. It is still a pleasure to drink now, but three-plus years of aging would be ideal.

“The 2024 Pouilly-Fuissé Terre de Pierres comes mainly from Fuissé, with free-run juice and some end-of-press juices from Vergisson. There is just a patina of wood to be assimilated here, though I find it more engaging than the previous vintage. The palate is well balanced with a harmonious entry and a little grilled walnut and almond here, with a refined and quite persistent finish. This will be difficult to resist in its youth.”
88 points, Neal Martin, Vinous
Verget Pouilly-Fuissé Terres de Pierres 2024

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Verget Pouilly-Fuissé Le Haut de la Roche 2024

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Verget Pouilly-Fuissé Le Haut de la Roche 2024

Located on the Roche de Vergisson, this exceptional vineyard missed out on Premier Cru status solely due to its altitude of 400 metres. Regardless, with its southeast exposure and stony limestone base, Jean-Marie Guffens considers the site far more worthy of the classification than many of the Mâcon’s new Premiers Crus. (Particularly considering global warming and the public’s thirst for fresher wines with lower alcohol.) The vines here were harvested at the very end of the vintage, with low yields bringing a marvellous core of compact fruit offset by a spine of ripe minerality and crunchy freshness. Vinified entirely in oak with 25% new barrels, it possesses excellent (Premier Cru!) intensity and length, silky texture and tension, with a long, palate-scraping finish.

“The 2024 Pouilly-Fuissé Le Haut de la Roche is another of the high points in the range this year, offering up aromas of white flowers, crisp orchard fruit and freshly baked bread, followed by a medium- to full-bodied, satiny and racy palate with chalky depth and a saline finish. It's another success for this consistently excellent cuvée.”
92 points, William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
“The 2024 Pouilly-Fuissé Le Haut de la Roche, which is picked as late as possible, has a bright, minerally bouquet that has more energy and tension than the previous vintage. The palate is very well balanced with a lovely rondeur, counterbalanced by the crisp acidity and tension. Maybe it does not quite kick on towards the finish like Verget’s best cuvées in ’24, but it does feel very persistent.”
91 points, Neal Martin, Vinous
Verget Pouilly-Fuissé Le Haut de la Roche 2024

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