Eye of the beholder but I don’t like cheesy PMS green color they use on the label for the reversed out vineyard names. I’m in the printing business and like cool art. Wouldn’t stop me from drinking and possibly loving the wine in the btl though They still seem priced right.
I wouldn’t take Dujac out of the running because I still buy most of their village and a few premier cru wines (namely the 1er MSD) every year (and love them immensely)…
My list would include:
Fourrier (but probably not for much longer)
Mugneret-Gibourg (but probably not for much longer)
Jadot
l’Arlot
D’Angerville
(+ many other producers that make very nice wine at acceptable price points)
Amiot
Ann Gros
Arlaud
Arlot
Arnoux
Bachelet
Bertagna
Bonneau du Martray
Bouchard
Bruno Clair
Chevillon
Clavelier
Clos de Tart
Coche-Dury
Comte Armand
Confuron-Coteitidot
D’Angerville
Damoy
Daniel Rion
De Courcel
De Montille
De Vogue
Drouhin
F.Esmonin
Faiveley
Fourrier
Geantet-Pansiot
Gouges
Grivot
Groffier
Gros F&S
Hudelot-Noellat
J.J Confuron
Jadot
Henri Jayer
Jayer-Gilles
Georges Jayer
Jean-Claude Boisset
Jean-Marc Vincent
Lafarge
Lafon
Laurent
liger-Belair
Marc Roy
Marechal
Meo-Camuzet
Michel Gros
Mongeard-Mugneret
Parent
Ponsot
Potel
Pousse d’Or
Ramonet
Roumier
Tardy
Trapet
Tremblay
Violot-Guillemard
Voillot
Seriously, add Lambrays, Lignier, and Eugenie and subtract a few and we’re pretty close. I’d add Lamarche but they had about ten seconds during which the quality was high and the prices were fair.
I guess that the Domaine doesn’t really exist anymore, but my runaway Number One would have been Rene Engel.
And I actually think that Vincent Girardin makes some nice Pinot, but his wines will need decades to settle down and show any secondary or tertiary notes.
Another outfit that I have really enjoyed is Domaine Forey [not to be confused with Fourrier].