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Burgundy

Domaine de Montille

Côte de Beaune

The Domain

Domaine de Montille is renowned as one of the finest domains in Burgundy. While the origin of the Domaine goes back to 1730 about, the modern history of the domaine started in 1947, when Hubert de Montille started to make the domaine’s wines at the age of 17, due to the death of his father. Four years later he took entire responsibility of the domaine.
As the domaine consisted of only 2.5 hectares at that time, he trained as a lawyer, and continued until his retirement to work both as a lawyer in Dijon and making the wines at the domaine. Hubert’s children, Etienne and Alix (was married to Jean-Marc Roulot) started helping in the domaine at young age, and Etienne had a second job (as an investment banker). But since 1990 Etienne started to take more responsibilities, and in 1995 became a co-manager of the domaine (although he continued working simultaneously in the bank until 2001). Under his lead the domaine’s reputation soared. Over the years by means of careful acquisitions, the domaine acquired more and more prime vineyards across the Côte d’Or, with the highlights being the acquisition of a fine parcel of Puligny Cailleret in 1993, of Corton Charlemange in 2004 and parts of the Thomas-Moillard estate in 2005 – including parcels in Vosne-Romanee Les Malconsorts, Clos de Vougeot and more.
In 2012, Etienne acquired the Chateau de Puligny-Montrachet, adding another 14 ha of prime vineyards (Chevalier Montrachet, Puligny Folatières, Meursault Poruzots, Saint Aubin “en Remilly”, Clos du Chateau de Puligny Montrachet, etc…) Today Domaine de Montille consists of 37 ha of vineyards, with respectively 23 ha under Domaine de Montille and 14 under Chateau de Puligny-Montrachet labels. In 2003 Etienne started a negociant business with Alix nameds “les Deux Montilles” which specialize in white wines.
 

The Style

The biggest change applied by Etienne in the vineyards was the decision in 1995 to become organic, and in 2005 to entirely switch to biodynamic. While Hubert’s wines were famous to their ability to age gracefully but show austerity when young, Etienne’s approach is to make more accessible wines through a philosophy of better vineyards’ management, reduced yields, elimination of chemical fertilizers, careful attention to phenolic ripeness and picking date, and fine tuned extraction and wine making technics (Hubert was known to make piegeage 6 to eight times per day during fermentation, and consistently used 25-50% whole cluster berries for making the wines – Etienne reduced it to 2 times per day and uses stems between non to 100% depending to the vintage). What remained unchanged over the years is the restrained use of new oak. The wines remain in barrels for 14-18 months and normally bottled without fining or filtration. Etienne and Alix fine-tuned this historical great domaine and set it up as one of the finest domains of Burgundy.

    Domaine De Montille
    Domaine De Montille
    Domaine De Montille

    AT A GLANCE

    Domaine Henri Gouges

    REGION OF PRODUCTION

    Burgundy - France

    APPELLATION

    20 appellations—with a staggering 75% in premier cru and grand cru vineyards throughout the Côte d’Or.

    FOUNDED

    Origin: 1730. The modern history of the domaine started in 1947

    VINEYARD

    23 ha

    CLIMATE

    Semi-Continental climate

    SOIL COMPOSITION

    Clay and marly limestone

    VARIETIES GROWN

    Pinot Noir & Chardonnay

    AGRICULTURE

    Practising organic faming since 1995 and biodynamic farming since 2005.

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