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Louis Boillot
Gevrey-Chambertin · Burgundy · France
Louis Boillot et Fils is a Côte d’Or domaine, not to be confused with Maison Louis Bouillot, the Crémant house in Nuits-Saint-Georges. Louis launched his own label in 2002 with old-vine holdings inherited across four generations in Gevrey-Chambertin and Volnay. In the mid-2000s he and his partner Ghislaine Barthod built a shared cellar in Chambolle-Musigny; Louis also oversees her vines. Today their son Clément guides both estates. Signature Gevrey bottlings include village wine from vines averaging over fifty years, the lieu-dit Evocelles, Premier Crus Champonnet and Cherbaudes (from century-old vines), plus Nuits-Saint-Georges Pruliers and a clutch of Volnay and Pommard Premier Crus. Farming stays low-intervention;
“vinification favours long, gentle extraction and limited new oak.”
Since 2014 the family has also worked Gamay in Beaujolais. The Pinots are gentle, precise and highly nuanced — Burgundy of old-vine transparency rather than of power.
