Théo Dancer Roc Breïa Pinot Noir Magnum 2022

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. 

With Roc Breïa, Théo combines the fastidious farming philosophies learned from his father with skills acquired at Provence’s benchmark Domaine de Trévallon, putting 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.

From vines planted in the mid-1940s and 1970s, Theo’s Chardonnay defies usual expectations of Mâconnais’ whites – ultra-refined and racy, it offers a core of pithy citrus and tingling acidity more often found in the top wines of the Côte de Beaune. Made with partial whole-bunch fermentation, Roc Breïa’s Pinot Noir – from sites planted between 1970 and 1985 – is richly textured and juicy, its sensual red berry character layered with sweet spices.

With allocations of Domaine Dancer’s wines among the region’s most requested worldwide and critics singling-out the 24-year-old Théo as one of the leaders of Burgundy’s next generation, these are bottles too good to miss.