2022 Pierre-Henri Rougeot Pommard ‘La Rue au Port’, Cote de Beaune, France

his was featured in ourMeet the Maker: Pierre Henri Rougeotevent on 3/3/25 and is a pre-arrival item expected to land mid-March.

Introducing Pierre-Henri Rougeot’s boutique production from organic vineyards in Volnay, Meursault, Pommard and Gevrey. 2017 is Pierre-Henri’s first vintage, partly whole-cluster, wild yeasts fermentation, no SO2 until bottling, no fining and no filtration.

Pierre-Henri Rougeot is a young vigneron with generations of family rootsin the town of Meursault. He grew up learning farming and the craft of winemaking with his fatherand by studying in Beaune.

In 2017, he decidedto add one more activity, a small negoce where he could make wines his way. The fruits come from his family estate, vineyards which are farmedorganically. The production is really small, one barrel here of one cuvee, two over there, max 4 barrels of Gevrey. Pierre-Henri makes his wines with littleintervention meaning No SO2 untilbottling, no fining and no filtration, the reds are macerated with whole-cluster, and age in neural barrels, the whites arepressed directly in barrels, no battonage and aging sur lees. 2017’s was a great vintage and his first.