Domaine Faiveley not too long ago celebrated the bicentennial of its founding with an enviable collection of occasions that included a tasting of chosen vintages again to 1935, lunch on the domaine, and a glittering gala dinner hosted on the Clos de Vougeot.
The positioning of the dinner was eminently acceptable, because the domaine is among the co-owners of the Château du Clos de Vougeot and a founding member of the Confrérie de Chevaliers du Tastevin, which is headquartered there.
Nuits-Saint-George-based négociant Domaine Faiveley is among the many best-known names in Burgundy; the home was based in 1825 and is right this moment the proprietor of greater than 120 hectares of vines. Domaine Faiveley is managed right this moment by Eve and Erwan Faiveley, the seventh era to supervise the operation.
The capstone to the Faiveley festivities final month was the announcement of the donation of a parcel of vines in Clos de Vougeot to the Hospices de Beaune. The Hospices, based in 1443 as a hospital to take care of the sick and the poor, has amassed a lustrous assortment of vineyards within the centuries since its founding by way of donations from grateful vignerons.
Ludivine Griveau, technical director of the Hospices’ winery, was delighted to welcome the Faiveley plot to her portfolio of vineyards, which spans over 60 hectares of vines in 86 completely different climats and produces greater than 50 separate wines. The parcel donated by Faiveley covers 0.18 ha (11 rows) within the Baudes Basses part of the Clos. This donation will allow the Hospices to provide three barrels of wine every year that shall be referred to as Cuvée François Faiveley. This new acquisition additional expands the grand cru holdings of the Hospices within the Côte de Nuits, which additionally embrace Clos de la Roche and Mazis-Chambertin. The Hospices will public sale its first classic of the brand new cuvée within the autumn of 2025.
The Faiveley staff will proceed to have a tendency the vines for the stability of the 2025 season, though Griveau and her staff will harvest the grapes. It’s attainable that the collaboration will proceed into 2026, with choices made collectively by Ludivine Griveau and Jérôme Flous, the technical director for Domaine Faiveley.
Griveau welcomes the collaboration and donation from Faiveley as each Faiveley and the Hospices use natural strategies within the winery, and their pursuits are aligned. The Hospices was licensed natural final yr, following the brutal 2024 classic, which was marked by incessant rain and consequent mildew.
Faiveley is ready to be licensed natural for the 2025 classic. This work has been applied steadily for the reason that arrival of Flous in 2007, because the domaine regularly ceased artificial therapies whereas starting to rigorously debud the vines and handle the cover to enhance airflow. Eve Faiveley recounts that among the many most difficult steps, nonetheless, was recruiting extremely certified and skilled workers and conserving them motivated all through the difficult 2024 classic.
The troublesome work of the natural conversion has been undertaken in market situations that Faiveley has gingerly described as ‘advanced’. It has modified importers within the essential US market on the identical time that financial pressures around the globe (together with the Trump tariffs) have adversely impacted gross sales. Happily, the 2023 classic has supplied each robust high quality and ample provide, though the volumes obtainable in 2024 shall be a lot decrease.
‘The volumes of 2023 will allow us to clean out shipments over the following few months, however the threat is producing pressure over the supply (of the 2024s),’ mentioned Eve Faiveley. ‘Within the coming yr, I’ll stay prudent however assured. We should adapt to troublesome market situations, however the demand for Burgundy stays robust and our costs should stay constant.’
