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Henri Poisot on his tractor during the grape harvest
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Henri Poisot during the harvest
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Pierre and Maurice Poisot

A FAMILY HISTORY…

THE FAMILY DOMAINE IS NOW OPERATED BY RÉMI POISOT, SON AND GRANDSON OF MAURICE AND PIERRE POISOT

«A great wine is not the work of one man, it is the result of a constant and refined tradition. There are more than one thousand years of history in an old bottle.»
[Paul Claudel]

Marie Poisot inherited half the wine-growing estate when her father, Louis Latour, died in 1902; her brother Louis inherited the other half, the hub of today's Maison Louis Latour. Marie's vineyards were shared between her six children, including Pierre Poisot. The latter married Yvonne Misserey. Three children were born of this marriage between 1932 and 1935: Maurice, Henri and France.

Pierre carried out his trade of wine-grower, as head of cultivation at the Maison Louis Latour, until his death on 31 December 1937. Yvonne Poisot then acquired the beneficial rights over the vineyards, which would be shared between her three children in 1979.

From 1902, Pierre's plots were farmed successively, under rental or sharecropping agreements, by Maison Louis Latour, Henri Poisot and Michel Voarick, prior to being taken back in 1986 by Maurice Poisot. This last, married to Marie Louise Piguet, has five children. The third, Rémi, resumed cultivation in June 2010.

Only Maurice's and France's plots remain of the original estate, Henri having sold his in 1990.
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…AND PERSONAL

AFTER 28 YEARS AT SEA, THE CALL OF THE LAND PROVED STRONGER. A NEW ADVENTURE BEGAN IN JUNE 2010

«Free man,
always shalt thou cherish the sea!»
[Charles Baudelaire]

Rémi Poisot didn't choose the most direct route to become a wine-grower, but his roots finally called him back to the Burgundian cradle. Indeed, attracted by action and eager to discover the world, he chose to leave Burgundy after high school to attend preparatory classes and pass the Naval School's entrance examination. In 1984, he was ready for adventure in the French Navy as a career naval officer.

Twenty-eight years later, having travelled almost all the seas of the globe, captained two ships, served on eight others, including the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, he felt the call of land. Navy captain he may have been, but can the son, grandson and nephew of wine-growers escape his destiny?

In September 2009, Rémi left the Navy headquarters, located on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, to start retraining at the Vocational Training and Agricultural Promotion Centre in Beaune. So, twenty-four years after his father Maurice, he resumed the cultivation of the family vines in June 2010.

With pride and humility, he intends to walk in the footsteps of his predecessors while contributing his personal touch. In addition, unlike his father, who sold the harvest as grape must and wine to traders local to the region, Rémi today sells part of the production in bottles.
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Aloxe Corton
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Pernand Vergelesses
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Vosne Romanée
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TODAY'S ESTATE

TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AFTER HIS FATHER, RÉMI NOW RUNS THE FAMILY ESTATE AND SELLS ITS PRODUCTION HIMSELF.

«In this world, there is nothing so serious as cultivating the vine»
[Voltaire]

After all the various divisions and sales that have occurred since the succession to the estate of Marie Poisot and the death of her son Pierre Poisot (1900 - 1937), wine-grower in Aloxe-Corton and Rémi's grandfather, the area cultivated today covers approximately 2 ha with the specificity, rare for a small family estate, of having three Grands Crus and a Premier Cru.

Today, Rémi cultivates and markets the following appellations:

- PERNAND-VERGELESSES village – Blanc
- PERNAND-VERGELESSES 1er cru En Caradeux – Red
- CORTON BRESSANDES Grand cru – Red
- CORTON CHARLEMAGNE Grand cru – White
- ROMANEE SAINT-VIVANT Grand cru – Red

In keeping with the family history, the cellar and the wine cellar where the grapes are vinified are located in Aloxe-Corton; this small village of great renown, entirely dedicated to the vine, had the name of the Grand Cru "Corton" appended to that of Aloxe by an Imperial Decree dated March 22, 1862.