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Henry-Frédéric Roch co-directed DRC for thirty years and always stood at the back of the photograph. This is the wine he made under his own name — whole-bunch, near-zero sulphur Clos de Bèze, from a 2005 only now beginning to open.
Le Clos des Corvées is a walled five-hectare monopole at the Prémeaux end of Nuits-Saint-Georges, farmed by Henry-Frédéric Roch with whole bunches, wild yeast and almost no sulphur. The 2011 — an early, cool, uneven year — at ten, from a label that carries a pictogram and nothing else.