Théo Dancer is a leader among Burgundy’s new generation of top winemakers, producing critically-acclaimed, sought-after wines under three different labels. He has taken the reins at Domaine Vincent Dancer, his father’s famously perfectionist Chassagne-Montrachet estate, and is applying the same quality standards to his two other projects. ‘Roc Breïa’ is an ambitious new enterprise making beautifully pure and transparent wines from Mâconnais fruit, while his ‘Théo Dancer’ label is a micro-négoce project working with rarer grape varieties, bought in from trusted organic growers.
While carrying on his father Vincent’s perfectionist work at the family’s Chassagne-Montrachet domaine, Théo Dancer is now blazing his own trail at Roc Breïa – an ambitious new estate making unexpectedly pure and transparent wines in Mâcon-Bray.
Combining fastidious farming philosophies learned from his father with skills acquired at Provence’s benchmark Domaine de Trévallon, Théo is working tirelessly to put his 10ha of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vines at the forefront of regenerative agriculture.
Using top-quality Mâconnais fruit, Théo crafts just two Roc Breïa wines, which he vinifies at Domaine Dancer’s cellars in Chassagne. Pressed slowly, they are fermented with natural yeasts in used 500-litre barrels and without batonnage, fining, or filtration. After a rigorous barrel selection, Théo bottles his wines with minimal sulphur.
While carrying on his father Vincent’s perfectionist work at the family’s exalted Chassagne-Montrachet domaine and blazing a trail with his Roc Breïa wines in Mâcon-Bray, Théo Dancer is also tapping connections to showcase his talents when applied to other grape varieties from exceptional vineyards across France.
For his micro-négociant project, Théo works with grapes that he and his father love to drink on Sunday evenings: Aligoté, Pinot Blanc, Gringet, Savagnin, Gamay, and Grenache. Sourced from farmers who share their quality-minded, hand-off ethos, Théo vinifies his wines at Domaine Dancer using the same fastidious, minimal-intervention philosophies as applied to his top Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. Pure and racy in style, they exhibit the hallmarks of their pristine origins through the prism of Dancer’s customary finesse.
