Friday before the
hospices is typically a day of preparation before all the grand dinners and fetes of the weekend. I scheduled my day between Chassagne-Montrachet, Rully, Givry, and Gevrey-Chambertin.
The theme? To visit 5 of the finest youngest quality obsessed producers in Burgundy. Each has a strong belief that to make great wines much work has to be done in the vineyard. The vineyard must be healthy and herbicides are an anathema. Plowing instead is a must to remove unwanted weeds even though it is time heavy activity that can be maddening. They also believe that although they have many modern technical advances to choose from to assist in making the wine, it is better to let the wine make themselves. They use technology only to understand
why they do what they do, rather than to drive the process. The final goal is to make a wine that has the pure expression of its unique
terroir, not a manufactured one that tastes like any other wine. . These winemakers are some of the best small independant producers in the world and it was a pleasure to listen to their passion as it was to taste their wines.
- Laurent Pillot (Domaine F. and L Pillot) of Chassagne-montrachet
- Pascale Clement (Domaine Belleville) of Rully
- Arnaud Chopin (Domaine A. Chopin) of Nuits St Georges
- Jerome Gaylerand (Domaine Jerome Galeyrand) Gevrey-Chambertin
- Nicolas Ragot (Domaine N. Ragot) of Givry
The theme? To visit 5 of the finest youngest quality obsessed producers in Burgundy. Each has a strong belief that to make great wines much work has to be done in the vineyard. The vineyard must be healthy and herbicides are an anathema. Plowing instead is a must to remove unwanted weeds even though it is time heavy activity that can be maddening. They also believe that although they have many modern technical advances to choose from to assist in making the wine, it is better to let the wine make themselves. They use technology only to understand why they do what they do, rather than to drive the process. The final goal is to make a wine that has the pure expression of its unique terroir, not a manufactured one that tastes like any other wine. . These winemakers are some of the best small independant producers in the world and it was a pleasure to listen to their passion as it was to taste their wines.
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