Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru Clos des Varoilles Domaine des Varoilles 2015 75cl

COTE DE NUITS VILLAGES OLD VINES ARNAUD CHOPIN 2020 

Le Domaine Chopin and son is located in the small village of Comblanchien halfway between Beaune and Nuits-Saint-Georges in Burgundy. The property is located in the far south of the Côte de Nuits. Arnaud Chopin and his brother, now at the head of the family estate, took over from their father a few years ago. They modernized the estate and did a lot of work on the vineyard and the winemaking.

The vineyard Domaine Chopin and son extends over a little over 14 hectares of vines aged an average of 60 years. Most of the grapes come from the Pinot Noir grape variety. The wines produced are Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru appellations, Côtes de Nuits Village and Chambolle Musigny.

Beaujolais-Villages le Trublion Alexis de Benoist 2022 75cl

Varietal: Gamay Noir

Originally from Champagne, Alexis de Benoist settled in 2010 as an artisan winemaker in the family property to reinstate the culture of the vine, interrupted for a century, and reconnect with its history. Since then, the family has regained its title of winemaker.

Today, he cultivates 9,5 hectares of vines spread over two wine regions: the Mâconnais and the Beaujolais.

The intention is to harmonize the grape variety and its terroir to obtain wines with character. Anxious to preserve the environment and the quality of his wines, Alexis de Benoist has chosen to focus his efforts on the vine, favoring traditional agriculture and farming methods linked to observation.

In this 30 to 80 year old vineyard, the harvest is done by hand. The grapes are thus harvested healthy, at maturity and remain intact on arrival at the vat room for vinification in whole bunches.

The choice of traditional vinification and aging aims to preserve the freshness of the fruit, while retaining structure, in order to produce an expressive, balanced and delicate wine for laying down.

Yield / 45 hl/ha
Harvest / Sorting the harvest in the vineyard with the pickers
Vinification / Between 5 and 10 days of maceration in vats, followed by fermentation between 24 and 28°C
Aging period / 6 months in vats

Gevrey Chambertin Vieilles Vignes 2020 Domaine Rossignol Trapet 75cl

Varietal: Pinot Noir.
Family owned: 4 ha
Cultivation method: vines grown biodynamically certified DEMETER by ECOCERT.

Gevrey-Chambertin is the largest red wine village in the Côte d'Or with its 550 ha of vines in total.

The word Gevrey comes from “Gibriacus” which means goat guardian because of its dry and arid lands where classic crops could not grow.

Only goat breeding allowed the inhabitants to live. These lands were the favorite place for vines in the first century AD.

The word Chambertin, the most famous soil of the village, was attached to Gevrey in 1847. Gevrey-Chambertin was the first village that used this feature.

The parcels grouped in the Vieilles Vignes cuvée of Gevrey-Chambertin come from three different situations:

– The vines furthest north of the village at places called “En Combe” and “Clos de Combe” are quite deep and clayey plots, on a regular slope, which produce sappy, dense and robust wines.

– The plots further east and closer to the estate, at places called Les Crais, Justice, Grandes Raies, are made up of colluvium from the Combe de Lavaux which overlooks Gevrey-Chambertin. These soils, very gently sloping, gravelly and very filtering, produce wines of finesse and elegance.

– The vines located to the south of Gevrey-Chambertin (at places called “Clos de l'Arche”, “Fourneaux”, “Croix des Champs”) are on fairly loamy soil and on limestone bedrock. They produce wines with great complexity and great aromatic power.

The blending and bottling of the wines come from these different terroirs, with vines whose average age is around 50 years, resulting in a single vintage of Gevrey-Chambertin at the Domaine.

Each plot brings its qualities to the entire vintage.

Coteaux Bourguignons le ptit Bonheur 2020 Pascal Prunier-Bonheur 75cl

The estate was born from the association of Pascal Brunier and his wife Christine Bonheur.
Pascal Prunier created the estate in 1983 in the town of Auxey-Duresses, it is now based in Meursault. This estate  operates eight hectares of vines on the Côte de Beaune.These wines  vinified and matured for the most part in barrels, the essence of his work is to favor the vine in order to offer us great chardonnay and pinot noir.

Pascal Prunier-Bonheur leads his  vineyard  in reasoned control this domain offers us 17 appellations on plots all located in  Beaune Coast.

This little Bonheur bears its name wonderfully with this pretty pure and crunchy Gamay full of indulgence.

Burgundy Irancy les Beaux Monts 2022 Maison de la Chapelle 75CL

Winemaker  The Chapel-Vaupeloteigne 

Delphine is Burgundian and comes from a family of winegrowers. His professional life has always been linked to the great Houses of Burgundy.
Grégory is also from Burgundy. A graduate in oenology, he learned the trade alongside Nadine Gublin, winemaker at the Jacques Prieur estate, and Jean-Pierre de Smet at the Arlot estate. In 2001, he moved to Bordeaux to vinify at Château Smith-Haut-Lafitte, a Grand Cru Classé from Graves. Then it is the meeting with the consultant Stéphane Derenoncourt that he assists until 2004. Then, he becomes technical director of Michel Chapoutier and general manager of Ferraton Père & Fils. Since 2011, he has been technical director of Domaine Laroche in Chablis and has been following Quinta Do Monte d'Oiro in Portugal as a consultant since 2006.

The appellation covers 300 hectares of which around 180 are planted with vines, located a few kilometers from Chablis

This Irancy Burgundy from the climate of the beautiful mountains brings aromas of stone fruit and slightly woody notes, a palate of beautiful intensity with very fine tannins.
A very large bottle for Pinot Noir lovers.

Marsannay Longeroies René Bouvier 2020 75CL

Domaine René Bouvier is a family home created in 1910 by the grandfather of Bernard Bouvier, current master on board with his wife. The farm counts 13 hectares in pinot noirand 4 in chardonnay for a total of 18 appellations in Burgundy, Côtes-de-Nuits-Villages, Fixin, Marsannay et Gevrey-Chambertin, including Premiers and Grands Crus.

The vineyard is conducted in sustainable agriculture and is converted to organic farming, with tillage, disbudding, harvesting in green, harvest and manual sorting. In 2006, the estate has inaugurated a new winery of 1 200 m², the care given to winemaking and breeding making it a safe bet in the Burgundy.

When you ask Bernard Bouvier what a good wine is, he replies that "it is a wine that makes your mouth water, that makes you want to finish the bottle you have uncorked". Far from marketing, he prefers to evoke the expression of vintages and terroirs, and rejects a certain standardization of wines. This search for quality combined with respect for the terroir defines the Bouvier touch: round and powerful wines with perfectly tamed tannins.

Vinified according to the vintage with 50% whole bunches, aging lasts about 12 months in barrels and 6 months in vats.

Vosne romanée 2021 René Bouvier 75cl

Winemaker at Gevrey Chambertin

Pommard Aurore Bachelet 2021 75cl 

Varietal: Pinot Noir

It is on the heights of Santenay, south of the Côte de Beaune, that the Aurore estate resides. Its cellars and its winery are at the foot of the Three Crosses in a true haven of peace.
A vineyard border adjoins this authentic and historic Burgundian property.
After graduating from a business school and enriched by international discoveries, Aurore decided to return to her Burgundian roots. 
After training in viticulture and oenology, she trained for 5 years alongside her father, Vincent. At the same time, it strives to develop its own domain. 

Manual harvesting, 40% whole grapes, Pre-fermentation cold vatting, Fermentation 15 days in vats,Pregular manual irrigation and watering,dcuring then pressing,aged in oak barrels for 18 months

SAINT GEORGE NIGHTS AT HERBUES JEAN PIERRE GUYON 2018

The DOMAINE GUYON scea is located in the town of Vosne Romanée.

The estate has been geared towards organic viticulture since the 2000s. To provide transparency in viticulture and winemaking techniques, the estate entered into an Ecocert accreditation process in 2009 and obtained accreditation in 2012 .

The family estate was born before the war, his grandfather and his father successively and wisely led it until his brother and himself took charge of it in the 1990s. The man knows each of his vines, often very old, on the end of his secateurs. Jean pierre guyon took over the operation on his own.

His ambition is to return to what he considers the old way of doing things: that is to say winemaking with most of the whole bunches; no addition of sulfur, if possible, until the spring following harvest.

Entonnage after pressing and brief passage in vat. Slow vinification according to the temperatures of the seasons.

Bonnes Mares Joseph Drouhin 2021 75CL

With 80 hectares, Domaine Joseph Drouhin is one of the largest in the region. It is distributed throughout Burgundy: Chablis (38 hectares), Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune (38,5 hectares), Côte Chalonnaise (3,5 hectares), and includes a majority of Grands Crus and Premiers Crus, planted with two Burgundy grape varieties: Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

Between Chambertin and Musigny, and yet less known. The vineyard extends over two communes: Morey-Saint-Denis and Chambolle-Musigny. The plot owned by Joseph Drouhin is located in Chambolle-Musigny.

POMMARD 2020 THE THREE FOLLOTS PASCAL PRUNIER BONHEUR

The estate was born from the association of Pascal Brunier and his wife Christine Bonheur.
Pascal Prunier created the estate in 1983 in the town of Auxey-Duresses, it is now based in Meursault. This estate  operates eight hectares of vines on the Côte de Beaune.These wines  vinified and matured for the most part in barrels, the essence of his work is to favor the vine in order to offer us great chardonnay and pinot noir.

Pascal Prunier-Bonheur leads his  vineyard  in reasoned control this domain offers us 17 appellations on plots all located in  Beaune Coast.