The great virtues of Martinborough are the lowest rainfall anywhere on the North Island and a heat summation that's idyllic for Pinot Noir. Seasonal rains are limited to a tiny locality, five kilometres in radius. At the heart of these unique mesoclimes lies an auspicious terroir of wonderfully free draining gravels, the home of Dry River Pinot Noir. Its full and round palate over elegant, velvety textured tannins, defined by delicacy rather than power. The finished wine is aged for a year in a selection of seasoned and new French oak puncheons.

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Dry River are a first growth of Martinborough. One of the region's earliest believers. The crescent shaped appellation lies along the edge of a river terrace formed by the Ruamahunga and Huangarua Rivers. An artisanal accord of Tempranillo and Pinot Noir, Viognier and Shiraz. All the varietals are in balance though the tannin profile might give it away. Delicate acidity to underline the fruit, a story of exquisite balance and harmony and elocution, a mineral thread entwines with the faintest hint of dried herb, the finish is long with the freshness of lingering flavours.

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An extraordinary concentration of the finest vineyards in the world are to be found in the very southwest parts of Gevrey Chambertin. As you enter the commune from the south, the various Climats of Charmes and its satellites, a mere thirty hectares, all appear within the first kilometre of Route N74. The parcels of Dugat-Py are amongst the youngest, they are however the most fastidiously managed, trained to completely organic regimens of viticulture which have remain unchanged for centuries. Fewer than two hundred dozen bottles are made each year.

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Roman historian Pliny the Elder tells us that Gevrey Chambertin was the first part of Burgundy to be exploited for winemaking, ancient vineyards have been unearthed which date back to the 1st Century BC. The Dugat family arrrived somewhat later during the seventeenth century, they are respected by an elite peerage of vignerons for the uncompromising standards of excellence which they bring to the wines of Cote-d'Or. This artisanal and meticulous Domaine retains three precious blocks of vine, immediately adjacent to the finest vineyards in Gevrey Chambertin.

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Halfway up the auspicious slopes at the very top of Appellation Gevrey Chambertin, seven hectares of Champeaux are planted to a mix of marly red brown soils and limestone clays. There are a number of growers but the vines of Domaine Dugay-Py are husbanded to perfection through the use of totally organic vitculture. An exacting vinification, followed by a year and a half maturation in the finest new French oak, under the ancient cellars of Abbaye Aumônerie, achieves a Premier Cru of peerless elegance and exquisite grace.

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Champeaux is seven hectares at the very northern perimeter of Gevrey Chambertin, planted to an easterly facing slope of limestone clay alluvials which characterize nature's endowment of the most superior Climats de La Bourgogne. The vines of Domaine Dugat-Py are over fifty years of age, they yield an exceptional quality of fruit by virtue of the dedication and skill accumulated through centuries of family viticulture. M Dugat employs a measure of whole bunch inclusion and open ferments to compliment the excellence of terroir at La Champeaux.

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Petite Chapelle is a next door neighbour of the illustrious Chapelle Chambertin, three hectares of vine planted to a unique mesoclime, a little further down the slope than its eminent siblings. The tiny parcel of Domaine Dugat-Py is managed to old fashioned biodynamic principles of farming, vines are now fifty years of age and yield a limited harvest of the most exquisite Pinot Noir. The wines of Petite Chapelle are known for their suppleness and finesse, silken in texture and enchantingly perfumed, they articulate a remarkable measure of elegance and grace.

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The families of Dugat-Py can trace a history of tending vineyards in Gevrey Chambertin since the 1600s. Even the younger plantings of Coeur Du Roy are up to a century of age, devotedly managed to the soundest principles of biodynamic agriculture. Fruit is all hand picked, meticulously sorted and vinfied in traditional, open cement vats, followed by eighteen months maturation in the finest new oak. Since establishment in 1994, the wines of Domaine Dugat-Py have enjoyed a meteoric rise to status as the most desirable young marques along the Cote d'Or.

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The proprietors of Dugat-Py are native to the commune of Gevrey Chambertin, the family of M Dugat have been practising viticulture here since the beginning of the seventeenth century. Fernand Dugat established a new generation of vines immediately after the second world war, they are now fully mature and represent the most superior examples of viticulture within the greater commune of Gevrey Chambertin. The splendid vintages of Les Evocelles are highly prized and excruciatingly rare, a mere one or two hundred dozen are produced each year.

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The Dugat family have been growing grapes and making wine in Gevrey-Chambertin since the days of the Three Musketeers. Domaine Dugat-Py now own and operate five hectares of the finest Climat in the entire commune. Vieilles Vignes is a bottling of hand sorted Pinot Noir grapes, picked off biorganically managed vines up to fifty years of age, treated to a traditional ferment and eighteen months maturation in completely new oak barriques.

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Less than eighty dozen Dugat-Py Mazoyeres Chambertin are made each year, the block of vine is small and the standards of viticulture are without peer. There are a handful of gifted vignerons who work the Dugat-Py circuit of vineyards, a total ten hectares of elite viticulture, dispersed throughout the most superior quarters in Gevrey Chambertin. The remarkable success of Domaine Dugat-Py is a result of the most meticulous attention to detail, an exclusively biodynamic management of vineyards, followed by an uncompromising standard of excellence in the elevage.

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