BEAUNE 1ER CRU LES CENT VIGNES 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 ...
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.
Gevrey Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Racine du Temps René Bouvier 2021 Magnum
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 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.
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.
VOSNE ROMANEE THE BARS DOMAINE DU CONVENT 2020 75CL
Philippe CHRON.
The Domaine du Couvent presents itself as a family property led by Philippe Chéron and installed in the former convent of Gevrey-Chambertin. This 10 hectare vineyard extends over exceptional terroirs exclusively on the Côte de Nuits. Its vineyard forms a mosaic of plots mainly spread over the communes of Gevrey-Chambertin, Chambolle-Musigny and Vougeot; but also in Vosne-Romanée, Nuits-Saint-Georges and Marsannay la Côte.
Set of plots located on the climat les Barreaux for a total area of 71 ares.This climat from the top of the village overlooks the Richebourg and is framed by the Cros Parantoux, Petits Monts and Brulées premier crus. This current vineyard is the result of 15 planting campaigns from 1929 to 1977; and therefore presents a very diversified plant material with an average age of over 50 years. The planting density is 12000 vines per hectare, allowing an average yield of 40 hl/ha.
CHAMBOLLE MUSIGNY OLD VINEYARDS 2019 RENE BOUVIER
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.
SAINT GEORGES NIGHTS AT THE BAS DE COMBE 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 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.
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.
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