Domain Bernard Bonin Meursault Les Tillets 2021 Bottle (75cl)
The 2021 Domaine Bernard Bonin Meursault Les Tillets is a white Burgundy wine from the lieu-dit Les Tillets within the Meursault appellation. Classified as a village appellation, it is made from 100% Chardonnay. This parcel-specific cuvée comes from biodynamically farmed vines. The 2021 vintage thus combines the identity of Meursault with the specific expression of the Les Tillets climat, vinified by Domaine Bernard Bonin.
The bottle offered
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- 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
- Les Tillets
- 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)
- 20000
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.
Les Tillets
Les Tillets is a climat of Meursault located at the top of the slope, west of the village, situated in particular above the Gouttes d'Or and Les Bouchères sectors. This high-altitude terroir, oriented from east to southeast, belongs to the Meursault village appellation without Premier Cru classification. The described soils are thin, stony, and of the rendzina type, with gravelly scree and white marls resting on hard limestone sometimes close to the surface.
- Vineyard commune
- Meursault
- Origin of the vineyard name
- “Tillets” is presented as an ancient form of “tilleuls” (lime trees), which were once present on this slope and used in medieval medicine.
- Exposure
- East to southeast
- Altitude
- 300–350 m
- Soil
- Thin, stony rendzina-type soil with a humic horizon, gravelly scree, and white marls.
- Subsoil and geology
- Hard Bathonian limestone bedrock, locally close to the surface; slab-like limestone rocks reported.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Year the vineyard was acquired
- 1998
- Vineyard holding status
- Owner, stemming from the 1998 family transfer
Histoire de la parcelle
The application file for the Climats of the Burgundy vineyard to UNESCO lists Les Tillets as a climat of Meursault in cadastral section BK, on the 1988 cadastre. The traditional origin of the name is linked to the lime trees of the slope, formerly sought after for their medicinal uses.
