One of the most sought after Meursault winemakers today; Véronique Bonin and Nicolas Bernard are turning out some of the most exciting white burgundy on the planet. The young couple took over the 7ha domaine in the last 90s, formerly known as Michelot Mère et Fille, from Véronique’s family, and embarked upon a journey of innovation via a very natural, low intervention approach. Wild yeasts, no enzymes, no chaptalization, no fining, no filtering, only old barrels used for extended ageing, and minimal sulphur throughout the process – in the same fashion as Domaine d’Auvenay from Madame Bize-Leroy.
These are the hallmarks of the wines produced here at Domaine Bernard-Bonin, so it is no surprise to hear their name was hashed over in secret by the most fervent Burgundy collectors until few years ago, when the Domaine literally exploded on the global scene.
The tiny production mostly disappears in the cellars of Asian and American collectors, with just few bottles resurfacing on the top tables world-wide. There is much hype surrounding this exciting Domaine, and it is needless to say, prices are moving up fast, and bottles snatched up quickly by an ever increasing number of their thirsty fans.
P R O V E N A N C E . . .
We have the pleasure to work directly with the Domaine agent so these cases are all coming directly from the cellar – nothing has been traded over and over again and travelled half way across the world. Perfect provenance makes this offer highly appealing. We are also offering some very rare Magnums.
All offered In Bond, with a UK delivery scheduled for Q4 2023.
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All prices listed are in GBP per case, in bond.
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2 0 1 9 M E U R S A U L T
V I E L L E S V I G N E S
Case of 6 x 75cl
£1,680 In Bond
2 0 1 2 M E U R S A U L T
V I E L L E S V I G N E S
Case of 3 x 1.5L
£3,600 In Bond
2 0 1 4 M E U R S A U L T
‘ L E S T I L L E T S ‘
Case of 6 x 75cl
£2,100 In Bond
2 0 1 9 M E U R S A U L T 1 E R C R U
L E S G E N E V R I È R E S
Case of 6 x 75cl
£3,390 In Bond
2 0 1 6 M E U R S A U L T 1 E R C R U
L E S G E N E V R I È R E S
Case of 3 x 1.5L
£6,045 In Bond
2 0 1 5 M E U R S A U L T 1 E R C R U
L E S G E N E V R I È R E S
Case of 3 x 1.5L
£6,000 In Bond
Winery Visit | Note written by
W I L L I A M K E L L E Y
The Wine Advocate
“This was my first visit to one of the Côte de Beaune’s most talked-about addresses, and it was a pleasure tasting with Véronique Bonin and Nicolas Bernard. Beginning with six hectares, inherited by Véronique from the Michelot family of which she is a scion, it has today grown to fully nine hectares, augmented by further cessions from the same source.
Practicing organic from the beginning, with Demeter certification due for 2021, treatments are biodynamic. Bernard and Bonin explained that they favor a press cycle of two and a half hours, with a rotation every 15 minutes, with a view to extracting from the skins. The resulting musts go to barrel the next day, without the addition of any sulfur dioxide, and the same barrels are always used for the same appellations (“the wood remembers the imprint of the wine,” Véronique emphasizes). Fermentations are leisurely, with episodic bâtonnages determined by taste, and the wines spend 16-18 months on the lees. Sulfur is only added when the wines are racked to tank (strictly following the lunar calendar—readers will observe that the moon features prominently on the domaine’s label) before bottling, with the domaine targeting some 30 parts per million free sulfur dioxide at bottling. All this has made the estate a darling of the natural wine movement—still something of an epiphenomenon along the Côte d’Or. And some of the cuvées we tasted did display what would, in some quarters, be described as mildly “natty” characteristics: that’s to say, above average levels of volatile acidity and a touch of wild yeast-derived gently reductive funkiness. To reduce this interesting domaine to this small detail alone, however, would be a disservice to their thoughtfully sustainable viticulture and to a range of white Burgundies that actually display a very classical marriage of tangy acidity and chalky dry extract. I much enjoyed this visit—as well as the domaine’s 2018s, cropped at on average 45 hectoliters per hectare, as opposed to the 30-32 that is the rolling average at this address—and look forward to following Domaine Bernard-Bonin over the years to come.”
