Domaine Yves Boyer-Martenot

Vincent Boyer is an anomaly—a hard-working, hands-in-the soil grower focused on quality in an appellation where many wineries have hired enologists and coasted on Meursault’s reputation. Domaine Boyer-Martenot is a family winery where the wine in the bottle unquestionably lives up to its noble appellation.

While most Meursault winemakers blend, Vincent Boyer bottles many of his wines from his villages vineyards separately. Through the efforts of this estate, these single-vineyard Meursault wines have found their voice—showing just how varied and captivating great Meursault can be, even at its most “basic.”

It was this dedication to the true voice of Meursault that drew us to Boyer-Martenot wines so many years ago. While our partnership first started with Vincent’s parents, the transition to the estate’s fourth-generation has also been its crowning moment.

Meursault from Boyer-Martenot today is more expressive than ever. Vincent’s philosophy of less-is-more in the cellar means what you experience in each bottle is exactly what each unique vineyard and each perfect grape has to give.

The estate practices lutte raisonée (reasoned agriculture), avoiding pesticides and herbicides, and using indigenous yeasts for fermentation. Harvest is exclusively by hand. Grapes are pressed then fermented naturally in temperature-controlled, stainless steel tanks and aged in a mix of older and new French oak barrels (no more than 30 percent new wood) for one year. All wines bottled for North Berkeley Imports are unfined and unfiltered.