I had this wine at a dinner last night.
The wine comes from a vineyard solely held by Bouchard Pere et Fils who
acquired it in 1791 and has held it since. The name of the vineyard comes from
an old story about the founder of the Carmelite monastery which owned the plot
until the French Revolution. This nun predicted that although the then Queen of
France was regarded as sterile, she would have a baby son, the future Louis
XIV, the "Roy Soleil". At his birth, the Domestiques de la
Famille du Saint Enfant Jesus which owned the vineyard renamed it Vigne de
l'Enfant Jesus. The plot is a 9.9 acre section of the Beaune 1er Cru Greves
climat and is one of those flagship 1er Crus of Beaune (having no Grands Crus) together
with Drouhin’s Clos des Mouches and Jadot’s Clos des Ursules.
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