In a tasting cellar, it is easy to talk about pigeage, harvest date, age of the barrels and in Burgundy, you taste with your feet in the cellar with your eyes riveted on a map of the vineyard. Yes, the “Climate”, in the Burgundian sense, takes on its full meaning.

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Pinot Noir and Chardonnay largely dominate the Burgundy vineyard today. The last episode of frost shows the limits of this standardization in the face of changes in natural conditions. It is necessary today to understand the history of grape varieties in Burgundy and above all to ask the right questions because we know it: Nature never adapts to Man. It is up to us to observe it and adapt to it to sustain our activity.

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Épistemê, the result of the transmission of know-how and passion. A cuvée in collaboration with Marie Marc, student at the School of Wine and Spirits Business.

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The different methods of growing vines in French AOCs require us to chemically or mechanically manage the adventitious flora that develops under the vines and between the rows. Many people think that plowing is virtuous and that glyphosate is destructive. It is commendable because the government and the industrialists communicate a lot in this direction, but what about an agronomic point of view?

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I set up as a young winegrower in 2013. Since 2019, I have been doing market gardening. And this year, I got into cattle and sheep farming. My job is beautiful because I am in direct living contact, but it is a daily struggle with paperwork.

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I made my first vintage in 2013, when I was working biodynamically. After 5 years, I realized that the health of my soils was not improving, that they were still very eroded, dried out and I needed to treat a lot. I looked into permaculture and agroecology. Revelation.

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It's becoming systematic. Almost every year, in the months of April and May, we are forced to light candles or braziers in our vineyards. Some proceed differently, they turn wind turbines or helicopters to stir the air and heat it above the plots. The end goal is the same: to protect the buds that have already emerged to prevent them from freezing and avoid a loss of harvest. But why does man prefer to fight against nature rather than adapt?

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On Wednesday, November 25, 2020, as president of the Chassagne-Montrachet appellation, I welcome Roberto Petronio with pleasure and enthusiasm for a report in the RVF. I'll tell you about this meeting in more detail.

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Producing great wines requires taking into account many parameters in the vineyards and in the cellar. Tillage is one of these parameters. At the estate, we attach particular importance to bringing life and biodiversity back to our vines.

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