Domaine Claude Dugat is a tiny one of just six hectares: “a tiny domaine with cult status, and the quality to match” according to Jasper Morris MW. Bertrand Dugat, Claude’s son, is now at the helm. We are very pleased to make an offer of the estate’s 2022s

The quality of Dugat’s wines comes from the vines, the vigour of which is strictly controlled to produce small, concentrated and ripe grapes - the aim is to have berries roughly half the size of his neighbours. The grapes are de-stalked and fermentation involves no pumping over: just punching down twice a day. The resulting wines, aged in one-year-old wood for the Bourgogne Rouge, 60% new wood for the village Gevrey and 100% new wood for all other reds, are unusually rich and concentrated, maintaining a purity that can be ethereal.

2022 is clearly a vintage that suits the Dugat style. “Bertrand Dugat and his siblings have exceeded themselves once again with the 2022 vintage” writes William Kelley of the Wine Advocate, describing “pure, ethereal, perfumed wines of intensity and substance, more or less the platonic ideal of red Burgundy.”  Neal Martin of Vinous is also a fan: “The very fine range of wines abides by the purer, less extracted style of Pinot Noir, and their La Marie cuvée is worth seeking out since minuscule productions make the Grand Crus exceptionally hard to find.”

We have very limited stocks available, shipping to the UK later this Autumn.