Domanie Michel Gros

Domaine Michel GROS located in Vosne-Romanée, in the heart of the Côte de Nuits, finds its origins in 1830 when the first member of the GROS family settled there and founded his estate.
The following generations have continued to develop the estate’s plot, which currently covers an area of 23 hectares.
The flagship of the estate is Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru ‘Clos des Réas’, which has been operated as a monopoly by the GROS family since its acquisition in 1860.
Today, Pierre GROS (Domaine Michel GROS), 7th generation of this dynasty of winegrowers, continues and develops with the support of his father, Michel, the work undertaken by their ancestors.

Passionate but also very rigorous, Pierre takes constant care in the development of his wines, mastering all stages of production, from the vines to bottling. At harvest, the sorting is done in the vineyard with chosen sorters working alongside the pickers. The grapes are 100 per cent destemmed then encouraged to start fermenting almost immediately through the addition of selected yeasts. If the required percentage of alcohol (around 13 per cent for village wines and above) is not there naturally, part of the juice is passed through an entropy evaporator to concentrate it, and then blended back into the rest of the cuvée. After fermentation the juice is heated up to 35°C/95ºF to complete the extraction of the tannins and fixing of the colour, then left to settle for a week in tank before going to barrel with just the finest lees. The wines spend 20 months in wood, one third new at village level, 50 per cent for premier cru and 100 per cent for the three barrels of Clos de Vougeot. Michel likes heavily toasted barrels, as his father did before him, mostly from Tonnelerie Rousseau and the Tronçais forest.
From all this it is clear that Michel Gros is relatively interventionist in his winemaking and it is true that there is a house style of concentrated red fruits, but the individual cuvées do nonetheless reflect their individual terroirs, from the darker fruit and more prominent tannins of Nuits-St-Georges Chaliots to the supreme elegance of Clos des Réas.