J-C. WALLERAND & K. KATO Le Montrachet (EN/FR)

This combination does not exist.

• Bilingual French/English edition devoted entirely to Le Montrachet, told through text and photography
• 248 pages, richly illustrated in a large-format coffee-table style (approx. 22 × 29.5 cm)
• Built around testimonies from more than 20 local producers, capturing both voices and faces of the appellation
• A distinctly personal lens: conceived by Keiko Kato and Maika Masuko—Japanese writers/photographers drawn into Burgundy and its “mythical” vineyard
• Enriched by the writing of Jean-Claude Wallerand, a Puligny-Montrachet sommelier, adding local expertise and context
• Publisher: Planète de l’Image (publication date listed as 2002)

Keiko Kato and Jean-Claude Wallerand make for an unusually complementary pairing. Kato (with Maika Masuko) brings the outsider’s advantage: attention to detail unblurred by habit, and a photographer’s instinct for the human scale behind a famous name. Wallerand supplies the insider’s ballast—rooted knowledge of Puligny-Montrachet and the quiet authority of someone who has spent a working life translating great bottles into understandable language. The result is less a textbook than a portrait: Montrachet as lived place, observed at close range, and explained without strain.