Jean-Marc VINCENT brilliant wines, completely under the radar Blanc

Private Sale ... only 48 hours!

For a full 48 hours, we are offering you, as a lover and customer of the wines of “the most famous winemaker you've never heard of,” the exclusive opportunity to tell us what you would like to buy from VINCENT's new vintages. Once we have reviewed all requests, we will allocate the wines strictly according to the “first come, first served” principle – to ensure fairness. We will then contact you with your allocation. Only what remains after this private sale will be made available to all our customers.

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Jean-Marc and his wife Anne are people who spare no effort to improve their wines, even if it's only a little bit better – because they can't get any better, as far as I'm concerned, their wines are perfect.

Take a look at their vineyards in Santenay, which are so densely planted that people with claustrophobia should steer clear. Jean-Marc and Anne allow their vines to grow unusually high, which has advantages but also involves a lot of work.

To avoid compacting the soil unnecessarily, Jean-Marc has purchased small, lightweight tractors that are no longer manufactured today. And he has not only refurbished them, but also converted and optimized them for his vineyards.

On average, a winemaker invests 1,000 hours per hectare per year, and if their vines thrive on steep slopes, sometimes as many as 1,200 hours. The Vincents, however, put in 1,500 hours, and that's just the hours they work by hand in their vineyards; the hours Jean-Marc spends sitting on one of his small tractors are on top of that!

As you read my words, can you sense that the Vincents do everything, and I mean everything, to harvest the best grapes? Oh yes, they also work in the cellar, but this work is not quite as important as that in the vineyard. Jean-Marc and Anne ferment their must with natural yeasts, which means that fermentation is spontaneous, and they age the wine with almost no new wood (sometimes one or two new barrels are used). They use as little sulfur as possible and only as much as necessary.

I highly recommend that you not only take a look at the Vincents' wines, but also taste them and add them to your cellar, because they are among the best Burgundy wines available. Yes, yes, I mean the BEST, because it doesn't matter that the label says “only” Santenay and not Échézaux, Richebourg, Romanée-St-Vivant, Chambertin, or Clos-de-Bèze.

See you soon!

Warm regards

Carl J. Studer and his team

PS: Allocation is based on availability and the law of “first come, first served”... as always.