Producer profile: Domaine des Lambrays
The upward trajectory of this estate looks set to continue as it becomes the Burgundian jewel in LVMH's luxury portfolio. Panos Kakaviatos charts its history and looks ahead to the future...
Burgundy producers
The Napoleonic laws of equal inheritance mean that vineyard ownership has slowly been divided again and again through the generations.
These days, few Burgundy producers own more than a few rows in any one village.
Burgundy’s top producers
Negociants, by contrast, buy grapes or wine from lots of different growers, allowing them to make wines in larger volumes.
To make matters more complex, some well-known growers will make wine from their own holdings as well as buying in grapes from elsewhere. Some domaines make both estate wines and negociant wines, under separate labels.
The Decanter Interview – Christophe Roumier
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Producer profile: Domaine des Comtes Lafon
Producer of some of the world's best white wines, owner Dominique Lafon remains ambitious, with ventures in Mâcon and Oregon. Stephen Brook visits the famous Meursault estate...
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Producer Profile: Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé
Stephen Brook meets a team of perfectionists, who refuse to make wine by numbers...
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Producer profile: Domaine de la Romanée-Conti
Stephen Brook looks at the legendary Burgundy estate...
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Domaine William Fèvre
After a somewhat difficult decade, Chablis' Domaine William Fèvre would appear – under new owners – to be back on its feet. RICHARD MAYSON reviews the changes
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Dominique Lafon: most gifted Burgundy wine producer
As happy driving a tractor as wearing his crown of being probably the most gifted white burgundy producer, Dominique Lafon talks to STEPHEN BROOK
