DOMAINE LEROY ‘NOT FOR SALE’
The owner of one of Burgundy’s leading estates, Domaine Leroy, has quashed rumours that the property was up for sale.
Earlier this month the rumour mill went into over-drive that Domaine Leroy and its négociant business Maison Leroy were on the verge of being sold, with luxury group LVMH apparently in the running to snap up the estate for quite astronomical sums.
It is, however, not true. In an email to Ja...
François LEROY, winemaker, owner of vines at Auxey-Duresses (also where he lived). In addition, he owned vines at Meursault, Pommard, Chambertin, Musigny, Clos Vougeot, and Richebourg.
At this time he sold his wines through Comptoir des Proprietaires de la Cote-d’Or, in Beaune, as evidenced by a document listing prices dating from 1851, which quoted prices of his Richebourgs and Musignys. As he wished to enlarge his business, he founded Mai...
Domaine Leroy has 10 top Grand Crus in Burgundy (Chambertin/Latricières-Chambertin /Clos de la Roche /Musigny /Richebourg /Romanée-Saint-Vivant /Clos de Vougeot /Corton-Renardes / Batard Montrachet /Corton-Charlemagne). Some of the Domaine holdings are as small as 0.06ha, which limits production to a few hundred bottles for many of the wines and has helped the prices reach the top echelon in Burgundy.
Domaine Leroy’s golden rules of vi...
At Domaine Leroy, the estate has been cultivating vines under biodynamic conditions since the beginning, as Lalou Bize-Leroy has always been a firm believer in biodynamie. Their viticulture methods are meticulous and very demanding involving rigorous pruning, replacing each individual dead vine stock with a selection massale from the Domaine’s plants. During the harvest, the grapes are put into small caissettes to avoid breaking the skins and ...
IN THE AGEING CAVE: After pressing the wine, the wines go down to the first underground cave. Here they stay until the end of their malo-lactic fermentation. After pouring the juice off of the lees, (“soutirage a la sapine”—when no pumps are used only gravity); the wines then go down to the second, deeper and colder cellar. This is where they stay until they are bottled.
Domaine Leroy owns:
9 Grands Crus :
Corton-Charlemagne — 43 a...
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