From Savigny to Mercurey
Fast Cars and Red Wine
In Search of Sophistication
Now or Never
From Chickens to Chardonnay
Interview
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 [...]
Interview
Getting to know your vineyards is a long process. Maxime Dubuet-Boillot in Volnay is well aware of this. He is the new boy in the village, a village where new domaines are few and far between.
– My grandfather, Pierre Boillot, used to say it takes ten years to get to know a vineyard, he explains. The people I work with all [...]
Interview
Romaric Petitjean prefers his Saint-Bris on the ripe side. At harvest time he will wait for as long as possible in order to obtain the result he wants.
– I like it when you have a good maturity to balance the Saint-Bris character, the blackcurrant leaves and the slightly vegetal touch. I am looking for [...]
Interview
It was a now-or-never moment. Back in 2015, after twenty years with the cooperative in Lugny, Hervé Philippe decided it was time to take the plunge. This is the story about a man who saw what was missing. When nobody else [...]
Interview
Since the 1960s Domaine la Renarde in Jully-lès-Buxy has come a long way. Originally a poultry farm with a bit of vineyards on the side it has since, after a long period with the local cooperative, come to focus on wine under their own name. [...]
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...
