Arnaud Mortet Gevrey-Chambertin La Perriere 1er Cru 2017

Not content with just running the family estate (Domaine Denis Mortet), Arnaud Mortet created his own label. This exciting new project (2016 was the first vintage produced) was made possible by a retiring vigneron, who passed a ten acre estate to him and his sister, Clemence. Arnaud carries out all the vineyard work with his team to the same, exacting standards applied to the family vines, and then buys the fruit from the proprietor. The wines are made at the family domaine. While technically it's a negociant buisness as he doesn't own the vineyards, in reality, Arnaud has 100% control of the farming and winemaking. The ten acres are spread around Gevrey-Chambertin, the majority 50-year-old village vines, and then similarly old-vine plots across the Premiers Crus La Perriere and Lavaux St Jacques and Grands Crus Mazoyeres and Charmes.