Domaine Claude Dugat is an estate of just six hectares: “a tiny domaine with cult status, and the quality to match” according to Jasper Morris MW. Further to a very well-received offer of the domaine's 2022s last year, we are pleased to make an offer of their 2023s.

The quality of Dugat’s wines comes from the vines, the vigour of which is strictly controlled to produce small, concentrated and ripe grapes - the aim is to have berries roughly half the size of his neighbours. The grapes are de-stemmed and fermentation involves no pumping over: just punching down twice a day. The resulting wines, aged in one-year-old wood for the Bourgogne Rouge, 60% new wood for the village Gevrey and 100% new wood for all other reds, are unusually rich and concentrated, maintaining a purity that can be ethereal.

On the 2023 vintage at Dugat, William Kelley writes for the Wine Advocate: "This is another strong vintage for Bertrand Dugat and his siblings, who began harvesting an unusually large crop (by their exigent standards) on September 4. For readers who haven't been paying attention, a generational transition—Claude having handed the reins over to son Bertrand and daughters Laetitia and Jeanne—was discreetly realized at Domaine Claude Dugat a decade ago. The family's meticulous viticulture and enviable patrimony of old, sélection massale vines remain unchanged, but there have been subtle stylistic evolutions. Picking is earlier, the wines are no longer chaptalized, and the use of new oak is a touch more restrained—but above all, simply better integrated, with François Frères supplying barrels that seem to harmonize much more discreetly with the wines raised in them than was sometimes the case in yesteryear. All that delivers wines that are more sensual and elegant."

We have very limited stocks available, shipping to the UK in the Spring.