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white in colour, dense and compact, and extremely
aromatic with notes
of delicate white flowers. He deliberately harvests only a
limited quantity,
just enough for 41 hand-filled little pots,
as he leaves some for the bees to feed on.
We will harvest a second batch from summer
flowers which will have a different personality. A
smoother honey that gets its expression from
sunflowers, rape, numerous wildflowers that grow
in the meadows, and flowers from the garden.

Maturing the rare 2024s: t
Maturing the rare 2024s: t
he first bottlings already
he first bottlings already
After the prodigious 2023 vintage, 2024 seems
positively minisicule at 70% less… impacted by
extreme weather conditions (frost, unprecedented
rain, lack of sun and above all, mildew)
After ten months in barrel, the wines are looking
good. They have not yet been racked as they
don’t need it yet – perhaps after the harvest,
and depending on our impressions when we
taste it. Racking when transferring from one
barrel to another is not always necessary and,
in any case, never carried out systematically.
The whites had their lees stirred three times at the
rising moon and the last time was in December.
We appreciate this suspension of the lees but
always with a measured hand because, yes, they
nourish the wine but when done to excess it can
result in wines that are too lush. We prefer wines of
finesse and purity to heavy, over-opulent wines.
And now, after the final bottlings of the 2023 wines, it’s
already the turn of the first 2024s! In mid-July we are
going to do in three days what we did in two
weeks last year, that is to say the Terres de
Famille, in white and red, both colours of Côte de
Beaune Les Pierres Blanches, and the Beaune La
Montée Rouge, amounting to 32,000 bottles.
These are wines with concentrated
profiles, typically Burgundian, with incredible finesse
that are, above all, extremely rare! The vintage is
evocative of 2021 for its density, its structure,
its expressivity and its fruit.