Domaine Alain Hudelot Noellat

Domaine Hudelot-Noellat one of the top Burgundy producer trace its origins back to 1962. Founded by Alain Hudelot, he ran the estate for 45 years. In 1978, he married Odile Noëllat (granddaughter of Charles Noëllat), this union brought new vineyard in the Domain. 10 years later, in 1988, they added other vineyard to their holding: Domaine Hudelot was divided, half of it went to Domaine Leroy, Alain and Odile splitted the other half with Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron. 2007 was the last vintage of Alain Hudelot, he stepped down in 2008 to allow his grandson Charles Van Canneyt to take over, right after he completed his wine course at Dijon University.

Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat is one of the 3 fortunate producers to have both Romanée-Saint-Vivant (0.5ha) and Richebourg (0.33ha), alongside Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and Domaine Leroy. Around the world, every top collector is looking for these two wines, it is also the case for his Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru ‘Les Malconsorts’ and Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru ‘Les Suchots’. However, Charles Van Canneyt offers great village wine with a very good ratio quality for the value. The domaine covers 10 hectares, spread over 4 villages and 15 appellations, its makes a wide and very interesting selection. Most of his plots have very old vines, planted in the 1930s’, 50s’.

During vintage, careful sorting is done in the vineyards followed by detailed further sorting in the winery before the juice is carefully brought into the concrete enameled fermentation tanks. Charles’s philosophy is to keep up to 20% of the stems with the juice, especially in vintages and appellations where the fruit can support the extra tannins. The wines are aged in casks particularly from Allier, with some from the Vosges and local Citeaux.