Bruno Clavelier: wines and prices

About Bruno Clavelier

Domaine Bruno Clavelier is based in Vosne-Romanée, in the Côte de Nuits, and draws on a long family history of winegrowing. Bruno Clavelier, trained as an oenologist and passionate about geology, took over the estate in the late 1980s and gave it a radical new direction. He was among the first in Burgundy to embrace organic and then biodynamic farming, aiming to restore life to the soils and let the differences between terroirs emerge with maximum transparency. The vineyard holdings, spread across Vosne-Romanée, Chambolle-Musigny, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Gevrey-Chambertin and Corton, consist largely of old vines, some over sixty years of age, propagated by massal selection. In the cellar the approach is gentle: grapes often not fully destemmed, soft extractions, measured use of new oak and patient ageing. Clavelier’s wines are prized for their purity, the fine grain of their tannins and the precision with which they tell the story of each parcel, authentic expressions of artisanal Burgundy, free of excess and faithful to place.