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Technical Details

  • Blend 100% Pinot Noir
  • Winemaker Nicolas Potel
  • Country France
  • Region Burgundy
  • Sub Region Côte de Beaune
  • Appellation Beaune
  • Vineyard Pertuisots, Montee Rouge, Reverses, Bressandes, Clos du Roi
  • Farming Method Organic & Biodynamic Practices
  • Oak French oak barrels
  • Aging / Cooperage 12-14 months
  • Alcohol 13.5%

Domaine de Bellene Hommage à Françoise Potel Vieilles Vignes Beaune Premier Cru 2020

Pinot Noir | Burgundy

Organic & Biodynamic Practices

$125.00

$124.95

750ML

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This is one of the most personal bottles in the entire Bellene range. Named in tribute to Nicolas Potel’s mother Françoise, the Hommage bottling is produced from the domaine’s most prized old-vine Beaune Premier Cru parcels, vinified with the absolute minimum of intervention and bottled unfined and unfiltered as a direct expression of the site and the season. The 2020 vintage at Domaine de Bellene was a warm, focused year that gave the Beaune Premiers Crus remarkable depth and concentration, with the structure to age gracefully for well over a decade. The wine is dark, rich, and perfumed, with black cherry, ripe plum, violet, and dried herbs on the nose, a dense and silky mid-palate, and a long, mineral finish that builds with every sip. A wine made with love for a woman who clearly shaped the winemaker behind it, from a vintage that gave him the raw material to honor that story properly. Very limited. Grab it while you can.

About The Producer

Domaine de Bellene was founded in 2005 by Nicolas Potel, a Burgundy-born winemaker who grew up at his father Gérard's celebrated Domaine de la Pousse d'Or in Volnay. After Gérard's sudden death in 1997, Nicolas struck out on his own, building a well-regarded négociant operation before eventually purchasing his own vineyards and launching the domaine under the Bellene name — a nod to the ancient name for Beaune itself. Working out of a 16th-century building in the heart of the city, Potel assembled roughly 22 hectares of predominantly old-vine sites across the Côte d'Or, from Santenay up through Vosne-Romanée, farming them organically and making wines with minimal intervention — indigenous yeasts, no additions, hand-harvested fruit. He also ran a parallel négociant label, Maison Roche de Bellene, giving him one of the broader ranges in the region. Sadly, Nicolas passed away in a car accident in June 2025 at 56, a significant loss for Burgundy. The domaine's future direction is still unfolding.

$125.00

$124.95

750ML