Burgundy Pinot Noir Frédéric Leprince 2022 Magnum

CHARMS CHAMBERTIN RENE BOUVIER 2019

Winemaker at Gevrey Chambertin

Burgundy Irancy Maison de la Chapelle 2022 Magnum

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

An elegant and gourmet Pinot Noir with great flexibility.

Marsannay le Finage René Bouvier 2018 37.50 cl

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.

Burgundy Côtes d'Auxerre Red Domaine Garnier & fils 2022 Magnum

GEVREY CHAMBERTIN PREMIER CRU LAVAUX SAINT JACQUES BERNARD DUGAT-PY 2018

Winemaker at Gevrey Chambertin

100% Pinot Noir

Family of winegrowers in the Gevrey-Chambertin appellation since the beginning of the 17th century. Bernard Dugat and his 13th generation son Loïc perpetuate the unique know-how of working the vines and making wines thanks to the experience acquired over 4 centuries.

Thirteen generations of winemakers and winemakers accumulating incomparable know-how
- A massive selection of old Pinots Noirs
- An incessant work on plots mostly consisting of Very Old Vines 
(65 years of average) and the use of biological preparations modeled the Style of Domaine Dugat-Py.
 
After 6 to 8 years of minimum aging, you will rediscover the colorful, powerful, fleshy wines with a lot of elegance which have made the prestige and fame of the Grands Vins de Bourgogne.

GEVREY CHAMBERTIN JEAN PIERRE GUYON 2016 75CL

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.

Gevrey Chambertin Vieilles Vignes 2015 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.

MARANGES 1ER CRU LES CLOS ROUSSOTS 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

SAVIGNY LES BEAUNE LES PLANCHOTS JEAN PIERRE GUYON 2018 75CL

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.

VOLNAY FREDERIC LEPRINCE 2019

After a scientific training in biology, his winegrowing history begins with the chance of encounters, according to the internships and the various jobs he has held. Frédéric LEPRINCE knew that one day he would have a business of his own, but first he had to learn, discover, observe and do.

For about twenty years, he discovered all the facets of the profession. Vineyard work in Beaujolais vintages, the art of Bordeaux blend, purchase of grapes and vinification from great terroirs in Burgundy ... all these moments will be decisive in that each will bring their stone to their House, step by step.

Still marked by their spirit and their know-how, here are some decisive meetings of its first life.

CHAMBERTIN CHAPEL GRAND CRU 2014 DOMAINE ROSSIGNOL TRAPET

Family owned: 0,54 ha 
In the Chapel: 40 has
In Gemini: 14 has
Method of cultivation: vine cultivated in biodynamics certified DEMETER by ECOCERT.

In 1155, the monks of Bèze had built at this place a chapel called Clos de Bèze because it was facing him and was therefore on the east side of the path that goes from Gevrey to Morey. A portico spanned even the path from east to west. 
This chapel was dedicated to Our Lady.

Fallen into disuse in XVth century, it is rebuilt in 1547 by the vine growers. It is Philibert de Beaujeu, bishop of Bethlehem, who dedicates again the 4 July. She was shaved after the Revolution of 1789.

The locality was initially named Sous la Chapelle (the first mention date of 1457), with a High and a Low part.

The Chapel is on a slightly declining area. It is one of the most solar and early sectors of finage Grands Crus.

The situation of the plot is just below Chambertin.

The exhibition is perfect in the Levant.

Its soil is brown, stony and very shallow. At about 30 cm, there is a band of limestone rocks (called lava) which sometimes outcrop. The lavas are flat, gray limestone slabs; they were once used to cover the roofs of houses and churches. Similar roofs can still be found in Burgundy today.

A low slope ensures excellent natural drainage thanks to permeable white limestone scree that line this remarkable plot.

The low thickness of the soil and its rather warm nature lead to La Chapelle-Chambertin a portly and sensual wine, with finesse and elegance, always with great aromatic richness and exceptional density.

The average age of the vines is 60 years (the first plantations date from 1930) and planted only in fine Pinot Noir from mass selection with a planting density of 12 500 plants / ha.

The Chapelle-Chambertin appellation brings together two localities under its name, “Chapelle” proper and “Les Gémeaux”.

Less solar than upper chapel (in a slightly deeper soil), Gemini gives fleshier wines, very dense, tannins a little more formed.

Only this Domain owns these two parcels and is able today to diffuse an assembly of Gemini and Chapel.