Wine Press: What makes wines from a small village in France worth thousands?

(Note: This is a story about wineries visited by the author in Puligny-Montrachet in France’s Burgundy region.)

Puligny-Montrachet, France — The streets are deserted.

There’s barely even a sound — just the echoes of our footsteps bouncing off the clean, white stone walls on either side of Rue de L’Eglise.

This isn’t unusual. Most small villages in Burgundy on a Monday night in January look this way — quiet, empty, magical.

But Puligny-Montrachet feels different.

There never seems to be anyone walking around these narrow, winding streets any time of day or night.

Then again, less than 500 people actually live in the village.

But don’t let those numbers fool you. Puligny-Montrachet may be small but it’s famous throughout the world. And when people talk about it, they talk in revered,