Edouard Delaunay

Eduoard Delaunay is a Burgundy Negociant house founded in 1893. It is based at Château de Charmont in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits.Laurent Delaunay, representing the fifth generation of a family of winemakers and negociants, is reappropriating his family’s history.

From the 1920s, Jean Delaunay, the son of Edouard, and his brother Marcel expanded the business worldwide, from Europe to the Americas, from the African colonies to the Far East. In France the wines were not only in top restaurants but also supplied the major travel companies of te time (The French line, Orient Express, Wagons-Lits, Cunard, Air-France). Though it had progressively been sinking into oblivion over the last several years, the House of Edouard Delaunay, an old structure with a rich and unique history, has always been closely connected to Burgundy wine trade and was considerably implicated in the epic intercontinental expansion it experienced throughout the entire 20th century.

Bought back in 2017 by Laurent Delaunay, the great grandson of the founder, it strives to regain its place within the inner circle of the great houses of Burgundy through the meticulous and precise vinification and ageing of exceptional wines from some of Burgundy’s finest terroirs.

Edouard Delaunay produced 60,000 bottles in 2017, 75 percent of which were Pinot Noir. White grapes where more difficult to find, but Laurent plans to increase white production, and doube his overall volume in his second vintage, while continuing to improve quality.