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AUZEVILLE A MMXXII grand cru
AUZEVILLE A MMXXII grand cru
cuvée I
2022
Auzeville Grand Cru
— Côte de Beaune · monopole —
A family winery · six generations · since MDCCCLXXII
— Bourgogne, Côte de Beaune · eleven hectares · since 1872 —
cuvée I
2022
Auzeville Grand Cru
— Côte de Beaune · monopole —
cuvée II
2022
Les Sentiers 1er Cru
— Côte de Beaune · single parcel —
cuvée III
2022
La Garenne Blanc
— chardonnay · 0.8 ha · monopole —
cuvée IV
2022
Auzeville Villages
— two parcels · the entry rouge —
library · 2014
2014
Les Sentiers Réserve
— ten-year library release —
— Auzeville also produces, in small quantities, a Crémant de Bourgogne méthode traditionelle and a tiny Marc d'Auzeville from press wine. Both are sold only to the allocation list and not generally available. Library releases · vintage chart →
II — drinking windows
Auzeville's drinking-window guidance is conservative — we cellar every release for two years past the year we believe it can begin to be enjoyed. The chart below is our current best reading of the seven wines we have in bottle, projected forward through the autumn of 2034. We do not drink them sooner than we say to; we strongly recommend you do not either.
2014 Sentiers
2018 Grand Cru
2020 Sentiers 1er
2021 Villages
2022 Grand Cru
2022 Sentiers 1er
2022 Garenne Blanc
III — the parcels
Auzeville works six contiguous parcels over 11.4 hectares in the central Côte de Beaune, planted to pinot noir for the reds and a single chardonnay parcel for the blanc. Average vine age across the parcels is 42 years; the oldest vines, on Les Sentiers, were planted by Pierre Auzeville (Generation III) in 1948 and are still in production today.
1.8 hasince '52
2.4 hasince '48
0.8 hasince '96
3.2 hasince '68
2.6 hasince '74
0.6 hasince '18
IV — the family
— Auzeville · MDCCCLXXII — present —
1872 — 1903
Founder of the domain. A former cooper from Beaune who bought 4.2 hectares of vines outside the village in the spring of 1872, after twenty-three years of making barrels for someone else. Made his first bottling — a Villages rouge — in 1875, in barrels he had cooped himself.
1903 — 1938
Took over from her father in 1903 at age twenty-six, after Augustin's death. The first Auzeville to put the domain's name on a label. Tripled the domain's vineyard area to twelve hectares; survived phylloxera, the First World War, and the early Depression. Sold the wines almost entirely to négociants in Beaune.
1938 — 1968
Marie-Louise's nephew, who returned from war service in 1946 to find the domain partly abandoned and the buildings unoccupied. Planted Les Sentiers in 1948, still the oldest vines on the property. Began bottling at the domain rather than selling to négociants — the first 'mise en bouteille au domaine' Auzeville label is the 1958 Villages.
1968 — 1996
Pierre's son. The generation that built the modern domain. Acquired the Grand Cru parcel in 1971, expanded production to 12 hectares, and made the first Auzeville Grand Cru bottling in 1976. Largely responsible for the technical reputation the domain enjoys today; he was Marie-Louise's grandnephew and Pierre's son and Charlotte's father, in that order, and ran the domain with all three at once.
1996 — 2022
Henri's daughter. Took over in 1996, age 28, and led the conversion of the domain to certified organic (2008) and biodynamic (2016) farming. Replanted La Garenne to chardonnay in 1996; her first wine. Stepped back from day-to-day winemaking in 2022 but is still in the cellars every morning.
2022 — present
Charlotte's son. Took over winemaking with the 2022 vintage, after seven years working in California, Chile, and Burgundy. Replanted Le Petit Bois to chardonnay in 2018, his first project; the first Petit Bois bottling will be released as the 2024 in autumn 2026. He works with his mother every day.
V — how to buy
Auzeville sells almost the entire annual production to an allocation list of approximately 840 households and restaurants, in two releases per year — autumn (current rouges) and spring (current blanc, library releases). The list is closed. Names come off it for one of two reasons: someone declines an allocation for three consecutive years (rare), or someone moves on (rarer).
When a place opens, we draw from a waiting list of roughly 2,400 names, which currently has a wait of approximately six to eight years. We are not coy about this — it is what it is — and we are sorry it is so long. We do, twice a year, accept new names to the waiting list. The form below is the only way to be added. We do not buy lists, take recommendations, or run a referral programme.
The autumn 2024 allocation prices (per bottle, ex-cellars, all taxes excluded) ranged from €42 for the Villages to €340 for the Grand Cru. Allocations are billed and shipped together, in cases of six or twelve, with a minimum of one case per release per household. Most households are allocated between six and eighteen bottles per release.
on the list
— Current wait time: ~ 6 to 8 years. The form takes three minutes. We open the list each spring and autumn for two weeks. Most allocations are 6 — 18 bottles per release. —
VI — visit the cellars
Domaine Auzeville
14 rue de la Vigne
21200 Auzeville-les-Beaune
Bourgogne, France
One hour south of Dijon
by car or TGV via Beaune
Visits last ~90 minutes and are conducted by a member of the family, in either French or English.
Visits cover the vineyards, cellars, and a tasting of five or six wines, including at least one library bottle and one barrel sample.
€48 per person. Maximum 6 visitors per appointment. Book at least four weeks ahead.