DOMAINE JOSEPH VOILLOT

DOMAINE JOSEPH VOILLOT

In the late 1940’s Domaine Joseph Voillot was born. Joseph began bottling his own wines which until then had been sold to the large négociants in Beaune. His son-in-law, former oenology professor Jean-Pierre Charlot from the Lycee Viticole in Beaune, took over the business in the 1990s and built upon the good reputation of this great Volnay domaine established by Josph. Today, Jean-Pierre’s nephew, Etienne Chaix, manages the estate. Etienne and Jean-Pierre see themselves as ”servants of the vine” and understand that great wine is made in the vineyard. As such long hours of work is carried out in the vineyards, many of which are very old and now farmed sustainably with virtually no chemical inputs. In the cellar gentle extraction of the 100% destemmed fruit produces classic wines of great charm. New oak is kept to a minimum, the goal being to let the vineyard express itself with as little influence of the hand of the winemaker. Utterly classical wines of delicacy and grace.