Domaine Clos de la Chapelle

Domaine Clos de la Chapelle

【Pure cuvées that carry the history and terroir of Volnay into the future】

In Volnay, a village once held by the Dukes of Burgundy, the story of the commune and the story of the beautiful chapel that gave this domaine its name have been intertwined for centuries.

Clos de la Chapelle was originally part of Domaine de la Pousse d'Or.

In 1865 Victor Boillot brought the parcels together into a single estate, and in 1937, when the INAO drew up the appellations of France, the name Clos de la Chapelle was formally established.

To the three parcels owned by Louis Boillot - Pommard Les Chanlins, Volnay En Carelle and Volnay Clos de la Chapelle - nine further appellations were added, giving four hectares of vines spread across twelve distinct terroirs, Grand Cru and Premier Cru among them, and an annual production of some 1,500 cases.

In 2011 the present owner, Mark O'Connell, bought the vineyards and renamed Domaine Louis Boillot as Domaine Clos de la Chapelle.

His aim is to make the purest wine possible, and he converted every parcel of the domaine to organic viticulture and biodynamics as soon as it came into his hands.

Everything here is directed towards drawing out the fullest expression of each parcel's own terroir: the grapes are picked by hand, and intervention during vinification is kept to an absolute minimum.