Domaine Henri Rebourseau

Jacques Rebourseau was a respected winemaker from Lugny. His son Claude Rebourseau settled in La Roche Vanneau in 1782. Modest farmers, they belonged to the hard-working rural class of the day involved in viticulture. They passed their passion for winemaking onto their children, one of whom was Jean-Baptiste Rebourseau. Born in 1839, Jean-Baptiste Rebourseau married Louise-Victoire Philippon in Gevrey in 1861. He grouped together several viney...

Domaine Henri Revourseau comprises vineyards stretching from the villages of Gevrey-Chambertin to Vougeot, cultivating some of the oldest plots upon the Côte de Nuits.

The Domaine’s vineyards are unique to the land upon which they are cultivated, conveying the originality of their climats.

How should a land cultivated without interruption for over 1400 years be worked today? The answer lies in knowing and understanding every individual vineyard plot and remembering the interventions applied to each vine, while evolving and adapting to change. This vineyard memory has been partially conserved in the estate’s harvest records that date back to 1778.

The Domaine employs traditional cultivation methods, combining 100% organi...

«This earth is entrusted to humankind; every one of us holds its future in our hands.
Today it is our responsibility to manage, develop and maintain the vineyards that our ancestors have passed down to us.

Gazing across the vineyards of the Domaine, one could be tempted to act with arrogance, practising an interventionism that would flatter tastes and succumb to fleeting trends.

But this memory of the past, inscribed in the soil of our ...