Marsannay le Finage René Bouvier 2018 37.50 cl

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.

Gevrey Chambertin 1er Cru Petite Chapelle 2012 Domaine Rossignol Trapet 75cl

Resulting from the division of Domaine Trapet in 1990, Domaine Rossignol-Trapet is the heir of two illustrious winegrower families. The Rossignol family, originally from Volnay, and the Trapet family from Chambolle, have a long history as winegrowers. Most of Domaine Rossignol-Trapet is located in Gevrey-Chambertin, in Côte-d'Or. It is the sons, Nicolas and David Rossignol, who manage the estate. 
The Rossignol-Trapet estate has been certified in organic agriculture by Ecocert and in biodynamic agriculture by Demeter since 2008.

COTE DE NUITS VILLAGES OLD VINES ARNAUD CHOPIN 2018

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 at the extreme south of the Côte de Nuits. Arnaud Chopin and his brother, Today at the head of the family estate, have taken over from their father for a few years. They modernized the estate and did a lot of work on the vineyard and 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.

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.

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.

VOSNE ROMANEE CHARMES DE MAZIERES JEAN PIERRE GUYON 2020

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.

SAVIGNY LES BEAUNE 1ER CRU LES PEUILLETS JEAN PIERRE GUYON 2017 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.

Fixin Crais de Chêne René Bouvier 2019 Jéroboam

Winemaker at Gevrey Chambertin

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.

Burgundy Pinot Noir René Bouvier 2021 75cl

Winemaker at Gevrey Chambertin

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.

CLOS SAINT DENIS GRAND CRU JOSEPH DROUHIN 2018 

Winegrower in Beaune

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.

This is the smallest Grand Cru on the vines of Morey Saint Denis, it is located north of the village. 

It is said that it was the monks of the very old Collegiate Saint-Denis de Vergy who planted this vineyard at the beginning of the XNUMXth century.

GIVRY 1ER CRU CLOS FROM THE CELLIER TO THE MONKS 2019

The Cellier aux Moines is made up of a set of historic buildings dating from 1130, a vast Cistercian cellar, a house and its outbuildings, which dominate Givry and have stood the test of time. It was the vineyard of the Monks of the Abbey of La Ferté for seven centuries, until the French Revolution. Then it was the property of the same family for two centuries, before being acquired and restored in 2004 by Philippe and Catherine PASCAL and their three children, Camille, Marguerite and Alexis.
The Domaine du Cellier aux Moines is one of the oldest wine estates in Burgundy. Established around 1130 in Givry by Cistercian monks, it is made up of a Cellar, always surrounded by its Clos de vignes for nine centuries.
The Clos du Cellier aux Moines is a Premier Cru Classé of Givry, today covering 13 hectares, as in the time of the Monks. The Domaine du Cellier aux Moines has 5 hectares, perfectly exposed in the middle and top of the hill, surrounding the historic Cellar. Enclosed above the Clos du Cellier, is another tiny 27-acre enclosure surrounded by very thick walls, forgotten since the phylloxera crisis. It was replanted in 2010 and named Clos Pascal.

In 2015, Guillaume Marko joined the field as technical manager, vines and wines. Holder of a DNO (national oenology diploma) from the University of Dijon, Guillaume did his apprenticeship in major areas of the Côte de Nuits.