Domaine La Pierre Ronde - Antoine Lepetit de la Bigne - Meursault Village Malpoiriers 2024 Bouteille (75cl)
Le Meursault Village Les Malpoiriers 2024 from La Pierre Ronde, crafted by Antoine Lepetit de la Bigne, is a white Burgundy wine made from 100% Chardonnay. This cuvée comes from a parcel located near the border with Volnay, at the bottom of the slope, planted in 1995 on deep, clay-dominant soils. The grapes are directly pressed, then the wine ferments with indigenous yeasts before twelve months of aging in barrels, followed by a supplementary period in tank.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Meursault
- Producteur / Domaine
- La Pierre Ronde - Antoine Lepetit de la Bigne
- Parcelle / Cru
- Malpoiriers
- Millésime
- 2024
La Pierre Ronde - Antoine Lepetit de la Bigne
Based in Beaune, La Pierre Ronde is the wine merchant and vinification structure created by oenologist and agricultural engineer Antoine Lepetit de la Bigne. It primarily produces wines from the Côte de Beaune using purchased grapes, supplemented since 2025 by a first farmed plot in Puligny-Montrachet. Vinification and aging combine barrels, foudres, and amphorae, with a moderate use of sulfur.
- Owner
- Antoine Lepetit de la Bigne
- Maître de chais
- Antoine Lepetit de la Bigne
- Surface (ha)
- 1.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- 25000
Histoire du domaine
A graduate of École Polytechnique, agricultural engineer, and qualified oenologist, Antoine Lepetit de la Bigne began learning wine tasting in 1997 with Philippe Bourguignon. After an initial career in industrial strategy consulting, he notably worked a vintage with Olivier Humbrecht at Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, before moving to Burgundy in 2007. He worked for eight years alongside Anne-Claude Leflaive at Domaine Leflaive and concurrently founded the École des Vins et des Terroirs, active until 2016. Following his departure from Domaine Leflaive in 2015, he developed a consulting activity in organic and biodynamic viticulture, then took charge of vinification at Château de Chassagne-Montrachet for the 2019 and 2020 vintages. The company La Pierre Ronde was established in 2012 in Saint-Romain, initially focused on vinification, wine trading, consulting, and training; its headquarters were transferred to Beaune in 2022. Antoine Lepetit de la Bigne launched his own range of wines with the 2021 vintage, essentially from grapes purchased from selected partners. In early 2025, he took over one hectare in AOC Bourgogne in Puligny-Montrachet, marking the beginning of production also derived from directly farmed vines.
Malpoiriers
Les Malpoiriers is a vineyard lieu-dit in Meursault, used as a geographical indication for Village-level Meursault AOC wines. It is located on a small hillside near the northern limit of the vineyard, towards Volnay, below Les Perchots and near En la Barre. Sources dedicated to the site indicate clay-limestone soils, with a notable proportion of clay, and a south to south-west exposure. The lieu-dit also appears to include or adjoin parcels located outside the Meursault Village demarcation, which are commercialized as Bourgogne Côte d’Or: the Village classification therefore applies only to its part officially delimited within the Meursault AOC.
- Vineyard commune
- Meursault
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name is interpreted as a memory of pear trees struggling to grow, which were later replaced by vines. An older form, "En Malporrey", is attested in 1494.
- Exposure
- South to south-west
- Soil
- Clay-limestone soils, described as relatively rich in clay
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Vineyard holding status
- Negoce/purchase of grapes from Les Malpoiriers; no owned vines documented.
- Indicative vine age
- Vines planted in 1995.
Histoire de la parcelle
The Côte-d’Or departmental archives mention a vineyard named "En Malporrey", identified as today's Les Malpoiriers, in a document dated March 2, 1494. The site thus bears witness to a toponymic and viticultural continuity dating back at least to the late 15th century. Les Malpoiriers are not among the climats legally authorized to bear the "Premier Cru" mention in the Meursault specifications.
