Domaine Louis Boillot & Fils

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A Quarter Hectare of Century-Old Vines

Domaine Louis Boillot & Fils Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Pruliers 2011 · Burgundy, France · tasted 11 June 2021

A Gevrey Boillot who moved to Chambolle, farming a scrap of Nuits-Saint-Georges planted before the First World War. Les Pruliers is the town's structured, tannic side, and 2011 was the early, cool, uneven year that Burgundy wrote off and then quietly reconsidered.

Twenty Minutes in July

Domaine Louis Boillot & Fils Volnay 1er Cru Les Angles 2013 · Burgundy, France · tasted 17 February 2021

On the twenty-third of July 2013 a hailstorm crossed Volnay in about twenty minutes and took most of the crop — the third year running. What was left was picked in October. A premier cru from that small, late, hard-won harvest.