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The influence of the abbeys over the whole of Europe combined with the economic and cultural power of the Dukes of Burgundy built up the fame of Burgundy wines.
Louis Trébuchet, young Burgundian wine-merchant wants to set up his own company in order to enhance his ten years of experience as manager of a reputed wine firm in Beaune. Providence enables these two gentlemen to meet and discover their mutual passion for Burgundy wines.
July 1984 in Puligny-Montrachet... Maison Chartron & Trébuchet - a quite unusual alliance between a mine grower and a wine merchant - was born in the heart of the prestigious village of Puligny-Montrachet.
Chartron & Trébuchet have also a staff who are enthusiastic in following the spirit of the house, devoted to the Burgundian tradition and sensitive to the very last enological and viticultural developments.
Michel Roucher-Sarrazin, under the aegis of Jean-René Chartron et Louis Trébuchet, is in charge of the wine making and élevage. Graduate Enologist, he conducts all the laboratory tests part in the various programs of fundamental research conducted by Professor Feuillat of the Institute Jules Guyot, in Dijon (malolactic fermentation control, influence of the various types of oak on vinification, tangential filtration…). He is in charge of 7 cellar men operating the topping-up the racking the fining the bottling the preparation of the orders and shipments
The estate employs 4 workers on the 9 hectares (22.5 acres) in production. Jean-Michel Chartron who joined the Company in 1994, after his business and viti-vinicultural studies, has just taken over the sales and marketing management of the company founded 150 years ago by his great-great-grandfather Jean-Edouard Dupard. Along with Jean-Michel, there are 4 people working in sales and marketing.
Jean-René Chartron and Louis Trébuchet, helped by their whole team, are signing their common passion on the theme : Expression of the "terroir" and the vintage
The premises of this firm being located in the heart of the most prestigious white vineyards, it is quite logical that Jean-René Chartron and Louis Trébuchet specialized in white.
With 26 appellations - 9 of which being in Puligny-Montrachet - the white are predominant with 75% of the production.
Strongly backed by Domaine Jean Chartron, the company Chartron & Trébuchet has naturally specialized in the vinification and the ageing of great Burgundy . The wild grape never grew in ancient Egypt. Did you know...? Many of the Museum's millon+ artifacts in its collections relate to fermented beverages or cuisine. (Think of Greek classical pottery and Dionysus cavorting with his satyrs and maenads!) Yet a thriving royal making industry had been established in the Nile Delta—most likely due to Early Bronze Age trade between Egypt and Palestine, encompassing modern Israel,the West Bank and Gaza, and Jordan—by at least Dynasty 3 (ca. 2700 B.C.), the beginning of the Old Kingdom period. making scenes appear on tomb walls, and the accompanying offering lists include that was definitely produced at vineyards in the Delta. By the end of the Old Kingdom, five —all probably made in the Delta—constitute a canonical set of provisions, or fixed "menu," for the afterlife.