Domaine Jean Chartron was founded in 1859 by a cooper named Jean-Edouard Dupard. He became the town mayor and is credited with coming up with the idea of adding the name Montrachet to Puligny, thereby creating a name that is now synonymous with the world’s most prestigious dry white wines. Jean-Michel Chartron runs the 33-acre estate today. The estate was larger at one time when it was part of the Chartron et Trebuchet negociant, which made less complex wines. But today the estate is a single business, with no connection to the former negociant. Wine Advocate wrote this in 2015: “Readers of this publication will already be aware that I am a big fan of the work that Jean-Michel Chartron is doing at his winery in the heart of Puligny…I find his wines to be complex, terroir/vintage expressive, perhaps you could say more "serious" without losing the sheer pleasure they give.”