Domaine Edouard Confuron - Vosne Romanee "Le Pre De La Folie" Domaine Edouard Confuron - Vosne Romanee "Le Pre De La Folie"

Edouard Confuron hails from the 6 generation Domaine Confuron-Gindre, located on Rue de La Tache in Vosne-Romanee. While working with his father, Francois Confuron-Gindre, he has slowly – and successfully, created his own distinct style of wines now presented through his own micro-domaine. The Confuron family have been vignerons since the seventeenth century during the reign of Louis XIV. Their specialty was, and continues to be, vine selection and propagation. They have led the way in identifying top selections massales and even have a clone of the noble Pinot Noir in their name: Pinot Confuron. Since officially entering the winery in 2015, Edouard has brought about two outstanding reforms. The first is to add more stem-containing proportions to brewing, giving the wine elegant aromatic qualities that can be enjoyed at a young age; the second is to bottle village-level plots separately to show a more precise terroir personality. The participating wines are as follows La Colombiere and Haut Maizieres. The 2021 vintage is the first formal representation of Edouard's personal range of wines and he has set the bar high, especially in such a difficult vintage. The Domaine accounts for eleven hectares, with five village wines, four premier crus in Vosne-Romanee and one grand cru Echezeaux. This is truly a blessing, considering Vosne-Romanee is regarded as the Holy Grail for Pinot Noir lovers. The Confuron name resonates very far in Vosne-Romanee with three influential branches (including Jean-Jacques Confuron and Confuron-Cotetidot) of the family owning substantial holdings in the village. Francois Confuron has always been an advocate of proper viticulture in harmony with the environment by ploughing the soils, avoiding herbicides and maintaining a healthy level of old vines within the estate. Working with biodiversity in the vineyard and pushing the roots to dig deep to find their nutrients is paramount for the Confurons. The domain continues to perform traditional ageing, with the wines having a passage in oak barrels made by several coopers as well as different toasts of wood. The wines will then spend in barrels over a period of about 18 months where a long malolactic fermentation will take place due to a very cool cellar. The bottling is done at the estate, while respecting the best temperatures and the lunar calendar. Finally, the domain is never complacent and is constantly questioning in order to better improve their techniques which have been transmitted between generations to evolve year after year.