Domaine Bernard Serveau

Domaine Serveau lies on the main High Street of Morey between the Route Nationale and Clos de Tart. The great-grand parents of the Serveaus were tonnelliers who bought parcels of vines, post-phyloxera, when land was cheap. Morey Les Sorbets was one of the first and most important vineyards purchased, 1.65 hectares, afterwards buying more parcels of vines in Chambolle. The grandfather was a miller but the dust didn’t help his asthma so he spent more time with the vines. The family then changed the domaine name from Jouan to Serveau by marriage.

Today it is Jean-Louis Serveau in charge of about seven hectares. It was his father who developed the sales and began replanting the older vines; Jean-Louis continuing that process starting straight from school in 1976 “old vines sounds nice but that doesn’t mean they were originally planted with great material.” he says. Jean-Louis has two brothers, including Alain Serveau who is head of wine-making at Albert Bichot, the other works as an engineer, not associated with wine. From 2009 -2011, Jean-Louis has had a medical problem which has reduced the time he could spend with his vines and has resulted in a significant amount of wine being sold in barrel