As you might have read in previous offers, we recently came across a cellar of private-collectors-turned-importers. Consisting mostly of California doctors, the group began visiting Burgundy in the 60’s and 70’s and collected perfectly stored gems from some of Burgundy’s top sites. They purchased and meticulously cellared their wines in a dark and constant frigid 50ºF warehouse along the San Francisco Bay. It is true that you’re often forced to kiss a lot of frogs in search of great vintage Burgundy due to their cellar history, however, this unfortunate variable is taken out of the equation here, and the condition of the wine is guaranteed.

Although the Guyon family has been in the wine trade for several generations, Antonin Guyon first purchased the family’s own vineyards in Gevrey-Chambertin and Meursault in the 1960’s. His son, Dominique, expanded the family’s holdings over fifteen appellations throughout the Côte d’Or. Today, the family domaine is run by Antonin’s sons, Dominique and Michel, from their cellars in Savigny-lès-Beaune. The hand-harvested fruit is sorted in the vineyards as well as the cellar, then is entirely de-stemmed. The grapes are vinified in climate-controlled, open-top wooden vats and are punched-down twice daily over the course of ten days. The wine is then racked into partial new oak where it ages for twelve months. The resulting Bourgogne Rouge is anything but a pedestrian example and hails from serious terroir of the villages of Pernand-Vergelesses, Savigny-lès-Beaune, and Aloxe-Corton, where the vines are rooted in clay and limestone soils that offer fine minerality in the glass. Combine that will the ideal 2010 vintage, and you have a wine that offers immense concentration, authentic sense of place and a wine that drinks well above its modest classification.