2019 Domaine de Chevillard Roussette de Savoie, France

This is the fourth vintage for Matthieu Goury, but the first under the Domaine de Chevillard label. We have tasted wines from every vintage he has produced – starting in 2013. And while each vintage shows its inherent vicissitudes, the overall level of quality is incredible. Every wine we taste at this domaine is stunning. The character Matthieu is able to coax out of his fruit is uncanny. He currently farms around 9.5HA, about half of which is Mondeuse. He has tiny plots of Pinot Noir and Altesse and a good portion of Jacqure as well. All the farming is organic. His winemaking is generally quite reductive as he uses no SO2 until bottling, and then only around 15ppm total. He does not punch down the reds or use batonnage for the whites and he rarely racks the wines. Whites are pressed directly to old barrel where all except the Altesse go through malolactic. Reds ferment in concrete after a long maceration and then go to old barrel. He uses a beautiful, antique basket press that he bought from Champagne and had refurbished. It sits on the second floor so he can avoid pumps and use gravity to move the wine.

Matthieu worked in the kitchen at high level restaurants before turning to wine. Perhaps that training is the secret to his rapid progression. However he managed to become so skilled so quickly, we are overjoyed to be representing these wines.