Old Vines and the Love of Vinification
When La Rochepot Met Meursault
A Horse of a Different Colour
In the Right Place, On the Right Side
From Savigny to Mercurey
Interview
There has always been Perrins in Volnay. At least if you by always mean for the past 600 years or so. Guillaume Perrin is the fifth generation to vinify at Domaine Perrin, a seven hectare estate. Red is the dominating colour, with a premier cru monopole as the crown jewel. [...]
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Domaine des Petits Champs Lins is the story about how La Rochepot met Meursault. In 2008 the Fouquerands brought together their vineyard holdings under one roof. Domaine Jean-Luc Fouquerand and Domaine Diane Levez became one single domaine, with vines in Meursault, Chassagne-Montrachet, Saint-Aubin, Volnay [...]
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– We are often approached by people looking for internships, who want experience from cellar work. I tell them there is nothing to do in our cellar. The work is done in the vineyards. 90 per cent of the work is done there. The remaining work in the cellar is basically done by itself.
Aurélie Cheveau talks about the importance of [...]
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The approach at Domaine Nathalie & Gilles Fèvre is very thorough. It always has been. From the early days when they singled out the best parts of their 50-hectare domaine to the decision in 2019 to go organic with all the vineyards at the same time.
– We were not interested in starting out with just two [...]
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Domaine Charton is firmly rooted Mercurey. Most of the bottles leaving the cellar have Mercurey labels. But the history of the domaine takes us to Savigny-lès-Beaune, where the grandfather of Vincent Charton had a few hectares of vines before he decided to [...]
In the late 1980’s Domaine François Gros was going downhill. Due to illness quality suffered badly and most of the wine was sold off in bulk. It was under these circumstances that Anne Gros took on the family domaine. Today she is one of the major players in Burgundy and recently she has branched out...
Pierre de Benoist at Domaine de Villaine is not your average Burgundian winegrower. In his world the aligoté grape rules, not the chardonnay and the pinot as elsewhere in Burgundy.
– The chardonnay is not my reference. The aligoté is.
While most producers in Burgundy use one or two grape varieties Domaine Bersan in Saint-Bris le Vineux is different. On their 20 hectares of vines Jean-Louis and Jean-Christophe Bersan, father and son, have six different grape varieties.
– It’s great for us, says Jean-Christophe...
