Domaine G Roumier Chambolle Musigny 2021

For Chambolles with a difference, wines which are substantial, even sturdy, as well as velvety and elegant, the best source is the Roumier domaine: to be precise, because there are two others in the village, the Domaine Georges Roumier.  This is one of the longest-established estate bottling domaines in the Côte D’Or.  And one of the very best of all.

The nucleus of this domaine lies in the dowry of Geneviève Quanquin, who married Georges Roumier in 1924.  Georges, who was born in 1898, came from Dun-Les-Places, in the Charollais cattle country near Saulieu. When he arrived in Chambolle he took over the Quanquin family vineyards, enlarged the exploitation by taking on a small part of Musigny en metayage and buying additional land in the commune, and set up on his own, independent of his parents-in-law, who also had a négociant business.  (This ceased to exist after the Second World War.)

The domaine was further enlarged in the 1950s.  More Bonnes Mares, from the Domaine Belorgey, arrived in 1952.  Two parcels of Clos de Vougeot were added in the same year.  And in 1953 the 2.5 ha monopoly of the premier cru Clos de la Bussière in Morey-Saint-Denis was acquired from the Bettenfeld family.  In the 1930s this parcel had belonged to the Graillet estate, the residue of which was subsequently to form the base of the Domaine Dujac.