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 effor...

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.