2019 Domaine Fabrice Vigot Gevrey-Chambertin Aux Etelois

‘Etelois’ has some of the grander neighbors in Gevrey-Chambertin; this parcel borders Grand Cru Chapelle-Chambertin and Premier Cru ‘Petite Chapelle.’ It has older vines planted in the early 1960s and soils of mostly decomposed limestone that couldn’t be better if they tried: this is one heady, handsome, and long-hauler Gevrey.

For this cuvée, grapes were hand-harvested and partially destemmed (80%). Fermentation took place in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts, and then the wine was racked to 30% new 228L tonneaux, where it aged for 13 months. Unfined and unfiltered. 

Fabrice and Christine Vigot, a quiet but skilled husband-and-wife team in Vosne-Romanée, have long shaped some of the village’s celebrated Pinot Noir through a crop-sharing agreement begun in the 1960s between Fabrice’s father and the Mugneret-Gibourg family. While tending grand cru and other prized sites for the Mugnerets, they also built their own domaine from 1990 onward, combining family vineyards in Vosne, Nuits-Saint-Georges, and Gevrey-Chambertin. Known as hands-on growers, they farm organically with a growing focus on biodynamics, producing village-level wines that routinely outperform their classification. After a string of low-yielding years and severe frost in 2016, they ended the crop-sharing agreement and now farm their own six acres, making wines that reflect their understated approach and deep connection to the land.