Burgundy wine

Once a pastry cook in Vesoul, Dominique Laurent admitted her passion for wine in 1987, and set up as a wine merchant in Nuits-Saint-Georges.
Her philosophy ?
Decanting, minimum sulphur and bottling without fining or filtering. And also a true quest for concentration, producing a high quality range of Chorey-Lès-Beaune and Charmes-Chambertin.

Dominique Laurent’s arrival on the Burgundy negociant scene in the early 1990s was accompanied by more than a bit of controversy. A self-proclaimed practitioner of "200 percent new oak", Laurent’s elevage practices included racking wine from one brand new barrel into another brand new barrel (hence the 200 percent), as well as a number of other, much less controversial practices such as hand bottling, and no filtration.

Whether or not Laurent’s cellar techniques improve the wines, his acumen in searching out fabulous examples of each climat for purchase has certainly been the engine that has driven Laurent’s top quality train. His offerings range up and down the Cote d’Or, with dozens and dozens of different appellations often offered in minuscule quantities of 25 or 50 cases of wine. Consequently, searching out a particular Laurent bottling can be extremely difficult.

Laurent’s wines are often mentioned in the context of Madame Lalou Bize Leroy’s negociant wines, though they have quite different stylistically.