I failed to locate one of my bottles for tonight's Burgundy dinner so I went and got a bottle from the shop specializing in organic wines and the bottle chosen was this Volnay 1er Cru Santenots from Domaine Lucien Muzard et Fils. The domaine can trace its history back to 1645 in Santenay, and the family had been selling off their wines to negociants until Lucien's two son took over in 1995, when they started domaine bottling.
Based in Santenay, with tiny holdings in Chassagne and Pommard, they went organic in 2005 and started conversion to biodynamic in 2008, completing the process in 2011. Unfortunately, due to bad weather and the subsequent necessity of systemic fungicide, they had to abandon biodynamic certification the next year.
The two brothers farmed 13.15 ha of their own vines (which are labelled mise en bouteille a la propriete) as well as another 3 ha of rented vines (labelled mise en bouteille dans nos caves). The Volnay was from rented vines. Now I am looking for their Santenay to try wines from their own properties.
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