Burgundy
Monthélie 1er Cru "Sur la Velle" - 2022 - Maxime Dubuet Boillot
Domaine Dubuet Boillot
First vintage for this cuvée by Maxime, a very fine climate that reveals the full potential of the Monthélie appellation, with the finesse of Pinot Noir combined with a powerful, racy and sapid structure.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Organic wine
- Appellation
- Monthélie 1er Cru
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2033
- rock’n’roll
Pinot Noir from 70-year-old organic vines planted on a 25-acre parcel facing south/southeast, right next to Volnay's famous Clos des Chênes climat. Brown clay-limestone soils. Harvested by hand, destemming, keeping 1/4 whole bunches, cold pre-fermentation maceration for 3 to 4 days, gentle pressing, 14 months of aging in French oak barrels, with 30% new oak.
Maxime Dubuet-Boillot
Maxime Dubuet-Boillot, child of the 1989 vintage and grandson of a farmer from Corberon and a vigneron from Volnay, first turned his back on his family vineyards before finally returning to them for good. Maxime’s career began not in wine but auto racing, working as a mechanic for The 24 Hours of Le Mans. He pursued that passion for 10 years before heeding the call of his winegrowing roots....
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