Domaine Amiot Servelle

Domaine Amiot-Servelle traces its origin back to the 1920s with Clément Tachot. He ran the estate for 30 years. Back then, he was farming only a few plots in Chambolle-Musigny and making just a few bottles of wine. In the 50s, his daughter, Cécile Tachot, and her husband, Jean Servelle, took over. Then, the domaine was called Servelle-Tachot. In 1980 Christian Amiot, son of Pierre Amiot from Morey-St-Denis and also from a winemaking family, started working with his wife Elisabeth Servelle, the daughter of Cécile Tachot and Jean Servelle. In 1989, Jean Servelle passed away and the domaine became Domaine Amiot-Servelle. In terms of the size of this domaine, since 2010, after acquiring a few plots from Christian’s family amounting to 1 hectare, the domaine has comprised 8 hectares. The additional plots they acquired are the following: Morey-Saint-Denis and Clos-Saint-Denis (.17ha) and Charmes Chambertin (.19ha). Now, they have three flagship plots – Clos-Saint-Denis, Charmes Chambertin and Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru ‘Les Amoureuses’ (.45ha).

When it comes to harvesting, they pick the grapes with full phenolic ripeness At the winery the grapes are sorted before being put into temperature-controlled vats. Then, Prune will do pumping over and punching down as she deems appropriate for the vintage. In addition, she may include whole cluster berries depending on the quality of the fruit and stems. Regarding the use of oak at Domaine Amiot-Serville, the bourgogne receives 20% new oak, the village wines see 30% new oak, and the premiers crus and grands crus receive 50% new oak. All the wines are aged in barrel for 18 months with one or two rackings, if necessary.