Clos de Vougeot

Game birds or game animals, Epoisses cheese, sirloin or rib of beef, roast beef.

This plot is located in the middle of the Clos de Vougeot (on the Vosne-Romanée side). What makes these vines unique is their great age (approximately 60 years old) and the fact that they naturally produce fewer grapes. These grapes grow in very small bunches and their skin is very thick which is a guarantee of the future wine’s concentration. The vine-growing techniques used here are also very particular: limited yields due to severe de-budding, green harvest if needed, working of the soil, absence of fertilizers, environmentally friendly pest management, respecting beneficial wildlife.

The wine is barrel-aged (no new barrels) for 15 months without racking. Finally, the wine, which was neither filtered nor fined, is gravity-fed into bottles.

The grapes are harvested at optimum maturity. They are sorted a first time in the vineyard where they are harvested in small, perforated boxes. Upon arrival in the winery, they are sorted through a second time by a team of 10 people. Next, the grapes are completely de-stemmed but not crushed (they are left whole) and are gravity-fed into tanks. Maceration lasts approximately three weeks with punching of the cap as needed. No additives such as yeast, enzymes or tannins are used so as not to detract from such a precious terroir.

Since 2002 Jean-Claude Boisset has been transformed by Mr. Boisset's son Jean-Charles from a traditional négociant into a viniculturaliste a cross between a viticulturalist and a vinifier. The result is the Jean-Claude Boisset Collection of Wines - Burgundy through and through. From one of the best young winemakers emerging in France Grégory Patriat each of the appellations is the result of rigorous selection and has been produced in limited quantities. This is the way of things in Burgundy... handcrafted in meticulous detail according to a philosophy of letting the vine do the work. A taste reveals our aim of striving for authentic wines in which human intervention has been kept to a bare discreet minimum; the wines are concentrated well-rounded and–-of course--expressive of their terroirs.