Domaine du Couvent 2021 Vintage En Primeur
This domaine, based in the heart of Gevrey-Chambertin, will be known to many of our customers as Domaine des Varoilles.
The Chéron and Hammel families were joint owners of Domaine des Varoilles, in Gevrey-Chambertin. In July 2020, following the retirement of Gilbert Hammel, the majority of the Domaine des Varoilles holdings was absorbed into Philippe Chéron’s Domaine du Couvent. The wines are therefore now labelled as Domaine du Couvent.
Philippe is not a new face in the Côte de Nuits. He has been at the helm of Domaine Misset-Chéron since 2011, when he took over the family business from his father. His grandfather, Paul Misset, founded Domaine Misset-Chéron in the late 1930s. The family soon expanded beyond Burgundy, buying large vineyard holdings in Vacqueras and Gigondas in the Rhône Valley – operations that are run independently, by Philippe’s brother and sister. Philippe was also a silent partner in Domaine des Varoilles, in Gevrey-Chambertin. The new venture takes its name from the cellar in Gevrey-Chambertin, where the Varoilles wines were made. The building was a former all-girls boarding house, ran by the nuns of the Couvent de Chatel (located in the Jura region). The building houses an impressive underground cellar, where the wines age. C&B’s favourite cuvées from Domaine des Varoilles are in good hands and you will be able to continue collecting the monopoles – Gevrey-Chambertin 1er cru La Romanée, Gevrey-Chambertin Clos du Meix des Ouches – as well as the Charmes-Chambertin.
The 2021 vintage will be released later in 2023.
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THE DOMAINE
The Chéron and Hammel families were joint owners of Domaine des Varoilles, in Gevrey-Chambertin. In July 2020, following the retirement of Gilbert Hammel, the majority of the Domaine des Varoilles holdings was absorbed into Philippe Chéron’s Domaine du Couvent. The wines are therefore now labelled as Domaine du Couvent.
In October 2021, we met Philippe Chéron for the first time in his cellars in the centre of Nuits-Saint-Georges. Tall and rangy in workman’s overalls, with a dry sense of humour and an obvious love of wine, we liked him immediately. He told us that his father had worked in the Varoilles vines since the 1970s, so there is clearly good knowledge of the terroirs within the familys.
THE WINES
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The 2021 vintage will be released later in 2023.
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