Bouchard Père et Fils Clos de la Mousse Beaune Premier Cru 2020

There are few wine houses in the world that can claim nearly three centuries of unbroken history in a single appellation, and Bouchard Père & Fils is one of them. Michel Bouchard founded the maison in Beaune in 1731, originally as a cloth merchant who had fallen in love with Burgundy on his trading routes to Flanders, and his son Joseph solidified the transformation into wine by acquiring the family's first vineyard parcels in Volnay in 1775. In 1820 the family acquired the historic Château de Beaune, a 15th-century royal fortress whose underground galleries became some of Burgundy's most remarkable ageing cellars, housing to this day nearly 2,000 bottles from the 19th century, the oldest a Meursault Charmes from 1846. After more than two centuries in the Bouchard family's hands, the maison was acquired by Joseph Henriot in 1995, triggering a sweeping quality renaissance that included new vineyard acquisitions, a gravity-flow winery built in 2005, and a dramatically tightened approach to viticulture and vinification. In 2022, Bouchard became part of the Artémis Domaines portfolio, the fine wine arm of the Pinault family, with Emmanuel Dumont as managing director and Mickaël Baroin as technical director. Today the estate is the largest owner of Premier and Grand Cru vineyards in the entire Côte d'Or, controlling 130 hectares across more than 450 individual parcels spanning 48 kilometers from north to south, including celebrated monopoles such as Beaune Grèves Vigne de l'Enfant Jésus and parcels in Montrachet, Corton-Charlemagne, and Chambertin. The organic certification achieved in 2025 across the entire estate marks the latest chapter in what remains one of Burgundy's most consequential ongoing stories.