Domaine Bernard Bonin Meursault Charmes du Milieu 1er Cru 2021 Bottle (75cl)
The 2021 Domaine Bernard Bonin Meursault Charmes du Milieu 1er Cru is a 100% Chardonnay white burgundy from the Meursault appellation. This cuvée comes from the central part of the Les Charmes climat, near Les Referts, in an east-to-southeast-facing sector with stony soils rich in iron oxides. The estate describes this Premier Cru as an expression combining depth and finesse.
The bottle offered
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Wine details
- Couleur
- White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Meursault
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Bernard Bonin
- Parcelle / Cru
- Charmes (Meursault)
- Millésime
- 2021
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Chardonnay
Domaine Bernard Bonin
Based in Meursault, Domaine Bernard-Bonin has been run since 1998 by Véronique Bonin and Nicolas Bernard. Its nine hectares, exclusively dedicated to Chardonnay, are mainly distributed across Meursault and Puligny-Montrachet. The estate focuses on old vines, organic and biodynamic farming, as well as low-intervention winemaking.
- Owner
- Véronique Bonin et Nicolas Bernard
- Maître de chais
- Véronique Bonin et Nicolas Bernard
- Surface (ha)
- 9.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 516
Histoire du domaine
The estate's history is rooted in the Michelot family, coopers in Meursault before turning to viticulture in the 19th century. After the Second World War, Bernard Michelot, born in 1926, joined his father Alfred in the vineyards and then married Lucie Buisson in 1949. The couple expanded the property, introduced estate bottling in the 1950s, and gradually grew the family vineyard to 19 hectares. In 1998, Bernard and Lucie Michelot divided the estate among their three daughters. Geneviève Michelot and her daughter Véronique Bonin then pooled their seven-hectare share under the name Michelot Mère et Fille. Véronique Bonin and Nicolas Bernard subsequently took over this operation, which became Domaine Bernard-Bonin and produced its first vintage in 1999. The couple quickly initiated an organic conversion, officially certified in 2015, and began experimenting with biodynamic practices in 2007. In 2021, the acquisition of plots originating from Chantal, Véronique's aunt, brought the estate's surface area to nine hectares.
Charmes (Meursault)
Charmes is a Premier Cru climat of Meursault, located south of the village near the border with Puligny-Montrachet. It encompasses the lieux-dits Les Charmes-Dessus and Les Charmes-Dessous and forms the largest Premier Cru climat in Meursault. Situated in the middle and lower part of the slope, it has a predominantly east to south-east exposure. Sources describe clay-limestone, stony soils resting notably on hard Jurassic limestones and marly limestones.
- Vineyard commune
- Meursault
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name is thought to refer to former common fields left fallow or to land once planted with hornbeam trees.
- Exposure
- East to south-east
- Soil
- Clay-limestone soils, with a significant presence of limestone stones on the surface.
- Subsoil and geology
- Hard Jurassic limestone and marly limestone.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Vineyard holding status
- Partial farming of the climat via Charmes-Dessus and Charmes du Milieu
Histoire de la parcelle
Les Charmes-Dessus and Les Charmes-Dessous appear in the historical land registry of Meursault and are documented in particular by the maps from the Napoleonic cadastre preserved in the departmental archives of Côte-d’Or. Their unification under the climat name Charmes was consecrated by the delimitation of the Meursault Premier Cru appellation.
