Alain Burguet has built one of Gevrey-Chambertin’s most compelling domaines from scratch. Now, Jean-Luc and Eric are carrying on their father’s legacy for crafting layered, complex, delicious Pinot Noirs.
Born into a family of growers, Alain was put to work full-time in the vineyard from the age of 14. After military service, he returned to Burgundy and gradually purchased old-vine plots from retiring vignerons across 9.5ha of some of Gevrey’s finest lieux-dits.
Since taking over the domaine in 2011, Jean-Luc and Eric – apprentices of Domaines Denis Bachelet and Henri Gouges – have taken their father’s pioneering organic work up a notch. By introducing biodynamic farming and later picking, as well as meticulously ‘triple sorting’ their grapes, they are bringing out more precision and purity in the wines.
