Domain Meo Camuzet Cros Parantoux 1996 Bottle (75cl)
The 1996 Domaine Méo-Camuzet Cros Parantoux is a Pinot Noir red wine from the Cros Parantoux premier cru in Vosne-Romanée, Burgundy. This cuvée comes from a cool, sloping, east-facing parcel with shallow, stony soils, where the estate farms approximately 30 ares. The vines, planted in the 1950s, ripen late. The estate typically describes this wine as opulent and structured, driven by a pronounced acidity, a creamy texture, and a slow evolution in bottle.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Vosne Romanée
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Méo Camuzet
- Parcelle / Cru
- Cros Parantoux
- Millésime
- 1996
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Pinot Noir
Domaine Méo Camuzet
Domaine Méo-Camuzet is a family-run estate based in Vosne-Romanée, in the Côte de Nuits. Its vineyard comprises plots in the Côte de Nuits and, following the acquisition of vineyards in Volnay and Pommard in 2025, in the Côte de Beaune. The estate is managed by Jean-Nicolas Méo, whilst winemaking is overseen by the oenologist María Ignacia Navarro González.
- Owner
- Famille Méo (Jean-Nicolas Méo, gérant du domaine)
- Maître de chais
- María Ignacia Navarro González
- Surface (ha)
- 21.40 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 70 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The estate’s history is linked to Étienne Camuzet (1867–1946), a winegrower, mayor of Vosne-Romanée and Member of Parliament for the Côte-d’Or, who gradually built up a substantial portfolio of vineyards in the early 20th century. In particular, he acquired the Château du Clos de Vougeot in 1920 and retained three hectares of vines within the clos after the château was sold to the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin in November 1944. On his death in 1946, his daughter Maria Noirot-Camuzet inherited the estate. Having no children of her own, she bequeathed it in 1959 to her nephew Jean Méo, who was then working in General de Gaulle’s office. Jean Méo maintained the sharecropping agreements, notably with the Faurois and Tardy families as well as with Henri Jayer. The estate adopted the name Méo-Camuzet in 1981, and its first bottles marketed under this label date from 1983. In 1984, Jean Méo gradually handed over the management to his son Jean-Nicolas, who moved to Vosne-Romanée in 1989 after studying business management and oenology. As all the sharecroppers ceased their activities in 2008, Jean-Nicolas Méo has since been managing all the estate’s vineyards. A separate wine-trading company, Méo-Camuzet Frère et Sœurs, was established in the early 2000s with the same family shareholders. In 2025, the estate acquired 3.4 hectares of Pinot Noir in Volnay and Pommard, bringing the total area under its direct management to approximately 21.4 hectares.
Cros Parantoux
Cros Parantoux is a climat in the commune of Vosne-Romanée, officially classified as Premier Cru within the Vosne-Romanée AOC. Located at the top of the slope, above and bordering the Richebourg grand cru, it has an eastern exposure and falls within cadastral section AN. Institutional sources describe the soils of the appellation more generally as limestone mixed with clayey marls, without allowing a sufficiently precise structured pedological or geological composition to be attributed to Cros Parantoux alone.
- Vineyard commune
- Vosne-Romanée
- Exposure
- East
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 0.295000 ha
- Vineyard holding status
- Owner, direct farming
- Indicative vine age
- Vines planted in the 1950s.
Histoire de la parcelle
After the Second World War, this difficult, rocky terrain, which was largely overgrown at the time, was brought back into cultivation by Henri Jayer under a sharecropping arrangement with Maria Noirot-Camuzet, with an agreement documented in 1950. Jayer subsequently acquired most of the climat over time and long vinified its grapes alongside those of Vosne-Romanée village. The 1978 vintage was the first Cros Parantoux that he marketed separately under his own name, marking a decisive milestone in the climat's international renown.
