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Les Astrelles
Gevrey-Chambertin · Burgundy · France
Domaine Les Astrelles sits in Gevrey-Chambertin on the Côte de Nuits. In 2019 Jean-Marie and Isabelle Chapier acquired the former Domaine Pierre Naigeon, renamed it Les Astrelles and rebuilt the team around a medical couple’s discipline — he a biologist, she a pharmacist — applied to vineyards they had first learned to love in Bergerac. Holdings now run to about fourteen hectares across Gevrey-Chambertin, Marsannay and Fixin, farmed organically. Julien Millet, who joined as cellar master in 2020 after experience at Comte Georges de Vogüé, leads vinification with vineyard manager Gaylord Boyeaux.
“The range moves from Bourgogne and lieux-dits such as Croix des Champs and En Pallud up to Premier Cru Lavaut Saint-Jacques and Grand Cru Corton.”
Elevage stays measured, seeking clarity of fruit and the mineral line of Gevrey rather than heavy oak. Under Millet’s hand the estate has become a fresh, precise voice in a village crowded with famous names.
