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Domaine Dureuil-Janthial
Côte Chalonnaise, France3 wines4.2 avg
21
Rully family domaine run since 1994 by Vincent and Céline Dureuil: some 20 hectares across the Côte Chalonnaise plus Puligny and Nuits-Saint-Georges, ploughed, hand-picked and organic.
The Janthial family has been in Rully since the 13th century. Vincent Dureuil's great-grandfather, Pierre Janthial, planted a plot of Chardonnay in Le Meix Cadot in the 1920s, and those vines still make the domaine's old-vine premier cru. In 1994 Vincent, then 24, took over from his father Raymond, together with his wife Céline.
The estate covers some 20 hectares, most of them in the Côte Chalonnaise, mainly Rully and Mercurey, with about three in Puligny-Montrachet and Nuits-Saint-Georges, spread over some two dozen cuvées. The vines are ploughed and picked by hand. The domaine was certified organic from 2009 until 2016, when a synthetic treatment used to save the crop from mildew cost it the label, and it was certified again from the 2021 vintage.
The reds are sorted on two tables, cold-soaked for about a week and aged in barrels from the Chassin cooperage before they finish in steel. The domaine puts the new oak at about a third for the reds and a quarter for the whites, though importers and individual sheets give figures from a fifth up to half.
