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.
Frédéric LEPRINCE settled for ten years in Nantoux, a small wine-growing village in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune, where he had the chance to buy an old farmhouse, a heritage witness to a time not so distant 'we lived in near autarky in the heights. A barn transformed into a cellar, a cool cellar which was no doubt used to store vegetables, an old bread oven that warms the body and provides a little comfort after a hard day of harvesting ...
GEVREY CHAMBERTIN 1ER CRU CLOS DES VAROILLES DOMAINE DES VAROILLES 2015 75CL
Gevrey-Chambertin is a French wine with a controlled designation of origin produced in part of the town of Gevrey-Chambertin and Brochon, in Côte-d'Or. This is a Burgundy wine, on the Côte de Nuits.
The Varoilles estate is a historic house. It would be one of the oldest in Burgundy, as some climates were planted there before the 12th century. The Domaine des Varoilles owns 10 hectares of vineyards.
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.
VOLNAY 1ER CRU SANTENOTS NICOLAS ROSSIGNOL 2015
Winegrower in Volnay
Nicolas Rossignol was born in 1974 and represents the 5 generation of vine growers on the terroirs of Volnay. After a technical training acquired at the Viticultural High School of Beaune between 1989 and 1994, he put into practice his knowledge acquired during various internships like the Domaine JOSEPH VOILLOT in Volnay or the Domaine du VIEUX TELEGRAPHE in Chateauneuf du Pape, and began vinification on the family estate ROSSIGNOL JEANNIARD.
Anxious to master other techniques of cultivation and breeding, he went to win in South Africa Domaine BOSCHENDAL in 1995 and Bordeaux in Château LA CARDONNE governed by Château LAFITE ROTHSCHILD. It was not long before he created his own estate in 1997 with a surface of 3 Hectares distributed in the communes of VOLNAY, POMMARD, BEAUNE, ALOXE CORTON and PERNAND VERGELESSES, while continuing the vinification and marketing of the wines of Domaine Familial ROSSIGNOL JEANNIARD
In 1998, it is 1Ha 50 extra with applellations like Pommard 1er vintage Jarolières and Chanlins Volnay 1er vintage Fremiets and Santenots that come to enlarge the field. From 2005 a new town is entering the range Savigny-les-Beaune with a village and two 1er raw whose Savigny 1er Cru Lavières et Fourneaux and a Beaune 1er Cru Clos du Roy.
It was also at this time that the decision was made to create a business to unify the two domains at the commercial level, this is how all the wines are now marketed under the label NICOLAS ROSSIGNOL
The Domain NICOLAS ROSSIGNOL currently operates 6 ha 25 which gives a total area of exploitation areas of nearly 16 ha.
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
CHARMS CHAMBERTIN GRAND CRU JOSEPH DROUHIN 2018
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 comprises a majority of Grands Crus and Premiers Crus, planted of the two Burgundy grape varieties: Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
Located below Chambertin, Les Charmes is an extension of Griotte-Chambertin.
BOURGOGNE IRANCY LES BATARDES 2019 HOUSE OF THE CHAPEL
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
The Bastards, facing West-North, is rather cool. The aromas are expressed on red fruits and intense notes of Madagascar pepper, typical imprint of the minerality of this terroir. The whole gives the wine its sliced and chiseled character.
GEVREY CHAMBERTIN 1ER CRU CLOS DES VAROILLES DOMAINE DES VAROILLES 2016 75CL
Gevrey-Chambertin is a French wine with a controlled designation of origin produced in part of the town of Gevrey-Chambertin and Brochon, in Côte-d'Or. This is a Burgundy wine, on the Côte de Nuits.
The Varoilles estate is a historic house. It would be one of the oldest in Burgundy, as some climates were planted there before the 12th century. The Domaine des Varoilles owns 10 hectares of vineyards.
GEVREY CHAMBERTIN OLD VINES ROOT OF TIME RENE BOUVIER 2020
Winemaker at Gevrey Chambertin
The René Bouvier estate is a family house created in 1910 by the grandfather of Bernard Bouvier, current master on board with his wife. The farm covers 13 hectares in pinot noir and 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 managed in sustainable agriculture and is the subject of a conversion to organic farming, with tillage, disbudding, green harvesting, harvesting and manual sorting. In 2006, the estate set up a new 1 m² winery, the care taken in vinification and aging making it a safe bet in the Burgundy .
When you ask Bernard Bouvier what a good wine is, he replies that "it's a wine that makes you salivate, that makes you want to finish the bottle you've created". Far from marketing, he prefers to evoke the expression of vintages and terroirs, and rejects a certain standardization of wines. This search for quality associated with respect for the terroir defines the Bouvier touch: round and powerful wines with perfectly tamed tannins.
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.
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