Domaine Ponsot
BRAND OWNER
William Ponceau got a winery in Moret-Saint-Denis and settled in Burgundy in 1872. Almost half a century later, two of William’s nephews expanded their holdings by acquiring ¾ of the Clos de la Roche vineyard. Hippolyte and Henri Ponceau were pioneers in a sense: they were the first among a dozen winemakers to start bottling wines into the boundaries of the economy. Vintage 1934 for the first time sold outside of France but not only in other European countries and also in America. Hippolyte Ponceau was a lawyer by training, became one of the founders of the AOC classification.
In the 60s, the son of Hippolyte Jean-Marie, on the basis of the selection begun by his father, first applicable cloning. Many of the Clos de la Roche Pinot Noir clones come from a mother vine planted as far as 1954.
In 1981, Laurent Ponceau and his sister Rose-Marie extended the distribution of bottled products and now Domaine Ponceau wines could please wine lovers from 44 countries of the world and eight years later they enrolled their own trademark.
From the very start, Ponceau wines have been produced by people who deeply feel and understand the originality of the terroir of each of the plots they own. Domain owners followed the way of reducing yields and abandoning chemicals, following the principle of moderate control.
Organic winemaking is the oldest way of farming in Burgundy, meaning that grass should be grow where it grows and flowers should bloom where they bloom, so the earth gets natural aeration, insects are fed, the vine fights with plants for water and lets deeper roots, extracting the necessary resources.
Nowadays, the rightful leader is the great-granddaughter of the founder of Domaine Ponceau, Rose-Marie. As before, admiration and respect for nature underlie the production of wines, based on organics and biodynamics and the only thing that Ponceau winemakers can allow is to help the vine if it asks for it without the slightest attempt to force things at any step. This is an approach which possible only in the case of maximum awareness, the availability of fundamental knowledge about the history of the land, terroir, technology.
In the 60s, the son of Hippolyte Jean-Marie, on the basis of the selection begun by his father, first applicable cloning. Many of the Clos de la Roche Pinot Noir clones come from a mother vine planted as far as 1954.
In 1981, Laurent Ponceau and his sister Rose-Marie extended the distribution of bottled products and now Domaine Ponceau wines could please wine lovers from 44 countries of the world and eight years later they enrolled their own trademark.
From the very start, Ponceau wines have been produced by people who deeply feel and understand the originality of the terroir of each of the plots they own. Domain owners followed the way of reducing yields and abandoning chemicals, following the principle of moderate control.
Organic winemaking is the oldest way of farming in Burgundy, meaning that grass should be grow where it grows and flowers should bloom where they bloom, so the earth gets natural aeration, insects are fed, the vine fights with plants for water and lets deeper roots, extracting the necessary resources.
Nowadays, the rightful leader is the great-granddaughter of the founder of Domaine Ponceau, Rose-Marie. As before, admiration and respect for nature underlie the production of wines, based on organics and biodynamics and the only thing that Ponceau winemakers can allow is to help the vine if it asks for it without the slightest attempt to force things at any step. This is an approach which possible only in the case of maximum awareness, the availability of fundamental knowledge about the history of the land, terroir, technology.
