JEAN-MARC VINCENT

Please don't say that I've never recommended Vincent's wines to you. I didn't exactly beg for them, but at least two newsletters were worth these fabulous wines to me – one for the 2017 vintage and one for the 2018 vintage.

They are influencers, Anne and Jean-Marc, without even realizing it. Influencers? Sure! We haven't seen 14,000 vines per hectare and a man-high wall of foliage, which in our region is two meters or more, in combination in Burgundy. Because density means competition, smaller berries grow on the vine and small berries provide a better structure and ultimately a more complex wine. The high wall of foliage protects against direct sunlight, sunburn and allows the grapes to ripen harmoniously.

In addition to the 250 kilometers on foot, the Vincents probably cover another 250 kilometers every year with their tiny, light chain tractors between their vines. Vehicles that the Vincents converted for their purposes with the help of a friend and rented a small workshop for. All this just to avoid compacting the soil between their vines unnecessarily, to avoid suffocating it.

Admittedly, a horse would do some of the work just as gently, but there are limits. And when the world looks away, the big, heavy tractor once again makes its tracks through the vines, compacting and suffocating the soil.

As you can see, the Vincents consistently apply their ideas and ultimately their work to the point. They press fantastic, lively wines, the likes of which cannot be found better in the famous appellations in the north of the Côte d'Or, only more expensively.

Warm regards

Carl J. Studer