The name of the Guy Bocard estate has been singing around Meursault for more than a century. Founded by Charles Bocard but expanded and made big by Guy Bocard.
Yet today's Guy Bocard is different from what we know from before. Since 2018, the Derichebourg family has owned the domain. Under this new leadership, the switch to organic viticulture was initiated, with the support of Guy Bocard, who oversaw production until his retirement. There was also serious investment in the vineyard and cellar to take it to the next level.
In 2022, after Guy's departure, the family decided to appoint winemaker Philippe Pacalet, the day-to-day management of the domain is entrusted to Henri Binoche, who also works for Château de Crémat, another domain of the Derichebourg family.
Domaine Guy Bocard makes full-bodied, powerful white wines that offer rich aromas in their youth and develop great aromatic complexity over time. They are terroir-driven wines that respect the typicality of Meursault.
This is achieved through long gentle pressings to extract only the finest bitters, fermentation is done with indigenous yeasts. Pacalet also advocates less batonnage (stirring of the lees) and less SO2, as well as careful barrel selection, up to 10 vintages with an annual rotation of about 10% new barrels.
The soils are predominantly clay-limestone, especially on the ‘Les Narvaux’, ‘Genevrières’, ‘Limozin’ and ‘Charmes’ plots and gradually accumulate more clay as they descend into the plain, the wines are vinified plot by plot.