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Vintage 2021

Winter 2020-2021 proved to be mild and damp, so much so that soils were well provided with water coming…

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Vintage 2020

2020 is a vintage marked by its exceptional earliness and high level of sunshine, resulting in small yields and…

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Vintage 2019

2019 is a vintage marked by a cool spring, then a hot, dry summer, so harvesting was at a…

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Vintage 2018

2018 is an early-harvest vintage marked by a spring and summer that were very hot and dry, resulting in…

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Vintage 2017

A vintage noted for the early return of springtime warmth, followed by a hot and sunny summer that was…

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Vintage 2016

2016 – a vintage that began painfully with a springtime frost on the morning of 27th April that destroyed…

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Vintage 2015

2015 is the result of a vegetative season particularly favourable to the creation of great red wines in Burgundy….

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Vintage 2014

Spring was particularly dry and hot, with vegetative growth starting very early, from the end of March. These very…

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GEN DE ART

April 2023


Preparing the transplanting plants

Discover our new labels, which dress the 2020 vintage, released this fall


Evolution of the works throughout the year 2022

The harvest ended on September 17, in weather as superb as the harvest 😊

Work on the new building began at the start of 2022. It will continue for several months. This new building will accommodate several production positions, such as labeling and bottle storage.

Work on the new building began at the start of 2022. It will continue for several months. This new building will accommodate several production positions, such as labeling and bottle storage.

Back in pictures on the 2021 harvest


The aging of the 2019 red wines is now complete. It is time for racking, which allows all the barrels of the same cuvée to be assembled in stainless steel vats. The wines will spend the next few weeks in these vats to finish clearing up before bottling next August.

Alain Echalier – Hiver 2020

Pierre, 7th generation, 30 years old, is now at the head of the family business. Located in Vosne Romanée, the estate covers 23 hectares, entirely on the Côte de Nuits. One of the estate’s flagship vineyards is Clos des Réas, a Vosne Romanée Premier Cru which, in fact, is surrounded by a wall. The 2.12 hectare plot has been in the family since 1860 and is a monopoly, which means that all the climate belongs to the estate. The resulting wine shows the elegance of lace, unlike the ripe and rich character of the wines of Aux Brûlées, another Vosne Premier Cru also produced by the family.
“In the vineyard, the work is identical, whatever the location of the vines, up or down the hill”, explains Pierre. In Burgundy, the village appellations come from the vineyard located on the lower part of the hill, while the Premiers Crus are generally mid-slope. “But the higher you go, the lower the returns,” he continues. Sloping soils have better drainage and vineyards also have better sun exposure so that the fruits ripen faster. In general, the harvest begins with the Grands Crus, then the Premiers Crus, then the villages.
There is also no preferential treatment in the cellar – the fruit is destemmed and during fermentation the wine is either reassembled or drawn. Conversely, half of the Premiers Crus are aged in new barrels, while the proportion is 25 to 30% for the villages, and new barrels are prohibited for the regional appellations. further expansion has become a challenge. The abandonment of horses, which were replaced by tractors, could have widened the geographical area of ​​exploitation. But the problem now is the price. “A village appellation vineyard bought for around 2 million euros per hectare still makes sense,” explains Pierre. “But the Premiers Crus, valued between 12 and 30 million euros, can no longer ensure a return on investment in a person’s life.”


2019 marks the 160th vintage of Clos des Réas since the purchase by the GROS family on April 29, 1860 at an auction. Le Clos des Réas then became the flagship of the GROS estate, and won several awards, including the gold medal of the 1867 Universal Exhibition, which will be proudly added to the label.
It is this label that was reissued for the 2009 vintage and that we will use again for the 2019 vintage dressing.


2019 also marks the arrival of a new appellation in our range, Gevrey-Chambertin “La Platière”.
This plot is 45 years old and is located on an alluvium subsoil from the Lavaux valley, typical of the Gevrey-Chambertin appellation. We have worked on this plot, its grapes and its wine in the same way as our other appellations, so you will find there the brand of the domain, with a typicity specific to the Gevrey finage.


Exceptionally early, the 2020 harvest began on August 28, 2020. Perfect sanitary conditions, good balance, but a rather low volume due to the lack of summer precipitation. The wines are now in barrels, for an aging period of around 18 months.

During the summer 2020, the new 29 hl foudre took place in the cellar

Dismantling by the Rousseau cooperage of one of our oldest casks, with a capacity of 12 pieces (i.e. 27hL). It had several non-repairable leaks and we chose to have it replaced with a new lightning bolt.