Founded in 1924, Domaine Georges Roumier is one of the very best producers in Chambolle Musigny with a large selection of red Burgundies, and a small production of Chardonnay. George Roumier initiated the practice of domain bottling in 1945 and proceeded to expand the domain with ‘Le Clos de la Bussière’ in Morey-St-Denis. The most legendary wine is the Bonnes Mares, made from both red and white soil on the Grand Cru Bonnes Mares creating the most complex and interesting wine from this terroir. We are proud to be appointed as the exclusive distributor from 2010 vintage.
The Roumier story began when Georges Roumier married Genevieve Quanquin in 1924. Quanquin had family vineyards in Chambolle-Musigny, which Roumier began to expand upon. Instead of buying plots outright, Roumier used the French sharecropping/lease system of métayage, whereby an individual cultivates the land for the owner in exchange for a proportion of the produce, to build up the domain's range. Roumier began with small plots in Musigny, moving onto Bonnes Mares as well as securing two plots in Clos de Vougeot.
Most recently, Domaine Georges Roumier expanded into Ruchottes-Chambertin, where it is entitled to two-thirds of the harvest from a 0.5-hectare (1.2 acre) parcel owned by Michel Bonnefond. The other third is sometimes encountered as Ruchottes wines labeled with the Bonnefond name (the wine is identical to the Roumier version).
When Georges Roumier died in 1965, his son Jean-Marie took over the winemaking. Eventually, Christophe, Jean-Marie's son, took over and is the domaine's current winemaker. His focus is very much on the terroir, so new oak is used sparingly and the temperature of the ferment is kept low to allow for the delicacy and fragrance of the wine to shine through.
The most important plots in the Georges Roumier portfolio are in the Bonnes Mares Grand Cru vineyard (in which the Domaine has 1.6 hectares/3.9 acres) and the Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru Les Amoureuses vineyard (0.4 hectares/one acre), which make two of the domaine's most sought-after wines.
