DEux Montille
DEux Montille ambition is to be an "haute couture" boutique exclusively focused on individual, genuine top quality wines in limited quantities. My sister Alix and I are the sole shareholders and she will be leading the business in addition to being the winemaker. The range of wines intends to cover both Cote Chalonaise and Cote de Beaune and possibly some wines from Cote de Nuits with a strong focus on white wines. She has gained considerable experience from her winemaking role with Alex Gambel, Ropiteau Freres and from Jean Marc Roulot, her husband along with some close friends such as Dominique Lafon. In an attempt to be fair and transparent with all our clientele, the labels will be different from those of Domaine de Montille.
Most of the wines are made from grapes purchased through long term contracts whereby we aim to retain substantial control over the vineyards by sharing key decisions with the grapes growers. The difficult time that Burgundy is currently experiencing turns out to be helpful to establish this new kind of partnership with the growers, and we want to leverage this opportunity to secure the quality of our sourcing in the future.
In the future, the production will not exceed 4,000 cases. 2003 is our first vintage with about 1,400 cases produced over 10 appellations, and we have now secured prime quality sources for about 2,800 cases in 2004 and will aim to reach 4,000 cases in 2005 only if we can the find the grape sourcing that meets our quality requirements.
Etienne de Montille
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