Domaine Jacques Prieur, Chambertin Grand Cru, 2010, 75cl

Food and wine pairings 

Braised duck with peas, veal shank with small vegetables, roasted stuffed goose, lobster in red wine, partridges, sweetbreads with morels, roasted quail, duck fillets, beef bourguignon, roasted woodcock, stew, lobster with coral sauce, spring veal chop, royal hare, matured rib of beef.

Technical characteristics

• Estate: Domaine Jacques Prieur

• Cuvée: Chambertin Grand Cru

• Country: France

• Region: Burgundy

• Sub-region: Cote de Nuits

• Appellation: Chambertin Grand cru

• Classification: Grand cru

• Color: Red wine

• Type: dry, still

• Vintage: 2010

• Grape variety: 100% Pinot Noir

• Format: Bottle 75 CL

• Grape variety of the estate: 100% Pinot Noir with white juice over 0.84 hectares.

• Terroir: Deep soil, brown on the surface, very evolved. Large blocks of fractured limestone in the subsoil. Full east exposure.

• Vinification and aging: The grapes are hand-harvested, then sorted and completely destemmed. The maceration lasted 21 days at controlled temperature in wooden vats. We perform a punch-down twice a day during the active phase of alcoholic fermentation. Malolactic fermentation is carried out at 100%. Aging is done 100% in new oak barrels.

• Duration of aging: 18 months.

History of the estate

The beautiful story of Domaine Jacques Prieur begins on February 24, 1868, with the marriage in Bligny-les-Beaune of Claude Duvergey (22 years old) and Marie Taboureau (19 years old).

Marie was born in Bligny in 1848, to winemaker-farmer parents, and Claude in Meursault in 1845, to winegrower parents. The latter founded the Maison Duvergey-Taboureau and prospered in the trade of wines and brandies without initially investing directly in viticulture.

In 1879, Claude Duvergey acquired the property of 'Herbeux' in Meursault, the current heart of Domaine Jacques Prieur... and began acquiring vineyard land. He then took a risky bet with the arrival of the terrible phylloxera in Côte d'Or. However, with the appearance of the remedy in 1886 (American plants), his choices made him a visionary.

In 1889, he acquired the famous Clos de Mazeray Monopole located at the southern entrance of the village of Meursault, but also a plot of Volnay Santenots, 4.5 ha of the legendary Clos Vougeot, and 2 lots in Chambolle-Musigny.

In 1890, he became the sole owner of the prestigious Clos des Santenots in Volnay, complemented by 1.5 ha of Puligny-Montrachet located on the magnificent terroir of Combettes and finally 0.45 ha of the mythical Montrachet (whose area will further increase in 1891 and 1892 with the acquisition of the plots of the Dent de Chien). He then conducted his trading activities in the Château de Bligny acquired in 1890 for his wife.

Without a direct heir, it is on the side of the Taboureau family that the two spouses will turn. Thus, they married, in 1891, Hélène Taboureau, niece of Marie, to a young man from a good Beaune family, Henri Prieur, a traveling salesman. They benefited from a very advantageous marriage contract that included some assets but especially the promise of a stake in the Duvergey-Taboureau business.

Thus was born from the union of Hélène and Henri, Jacques Prieur, on January 31, 1893, in Meursault.

The development of the estate continued with, in 1895, a new purchase in Musigny and the exchange of a plot of Clos Vougeot for plots of Chambertin and Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze.

In 1899, it was the place called Les Champans in Volnay that interested Claude Duvergey, then in 1907 the Chevalier-Montrachet.

Claude Duvergey passed away on March 9, 1920, and bequeathed all his assets to Jacques Prieur (his wife still being a stakeholder). Shortly after, the latter married Madeleine Darnat, daughter of Lyonese cloth merchants.

In 1924, Jacques Prieur and Count Jules Lafon established the famous 'Paulée de Meursault' to celebrate the end of a harvest with all the winegrowers of Meursault.

Marie Duvergey-Taboureau passed away in 1935 and definitively left the estate to Jacques Prieur.

Also a co-founder of the famous Chevaliers du Tastevin, he gave his name to the estate in 1956.

He passed away in 1965 and his wife in 1974, bequeathing the company equally to their 6 children.

In 1988, to prevent a leak of the estate to foreign shareholders, 5 great families united, among which was the Labruyère Family, entrepreneurs and winegrowers from Mâcon.

In the 1990s, the Grand Crus Corton-Bressandes and Corton-Charlemagne will enrich the mosaic of terroirs of the estate.

Today at the helm of this jewel of Burgundy, the Labruyère Family, supported by the heirs of the Prieur Family, defends every day the colors of the great terroirs of Burgundy, everywhere in the world.