Domaine Cecile Tremblay – One of the Hottest Domaines in Burgundy Today!
“You can’t buy happiness but you can buy wine, and that’s kind of the same thing.” – Anonymous
And there are few wines that make me more happy than Burgundy. I was super excited to get a small allocation of Domaine Cecile Tremblay wines as she is one of the hottest up and coming producers in Burgundy today. The wines of Cecile Tremblay have quickly become one of the most sought after among Burgundy collectors and the prices have quickly gone up to show how strong the demand is for these wines.
Although the first wines were produced in 2003 with her name on the label, Cecile’s family goes back over 100 years in the wine industry in Burgundy. It is her attention to detail and uncompromising work in the vineyards and in the cellar that has brought about her meteoric rise to fame. The fact that there simply are not enough wines to go around means even at these prices we only received an allocation of bottles for each wine we have listed below. We have the number of bottles listed that are available and that is all we will be able to get this year. The prices below are the best prices you will find anywhere in the world on these wines and with that said many are only showing 2-6 listings on winesearcher!
Domaine Cecile Tremblay – One of the Hottest Domaines in Burgundy Today
2022 Domaine Cecile Tremblay Vosne-Romanee Vieilles Vignes, Cote de Nuits
Price: $495.00 Your Price: $435.60 Quantity in Stock: 2
This Vosne-Romanée Vieilles Vignes is a blend of 2 parcels of vines. A tiny 0.23-hectare plot in Jacquines planted with 50-year-old vines and Aux Communes planted with 40-year-old vines. Both parcels cover a total of 0.53 hectares.
About 2,700 bottles are produced every year.
2022 Domaine Cecile Tremblay Vosne-Romanee Premier Cru
Price: $795.00 Your Price: $699.60 Quantity in Stock: 6
(93-96 Points) This cuvée is likely to be a one-off. It comes from the substantial new plot, originally thought to be all Vosne-Romanée Beaumonts but which on closer inspection turns out to be in part Echezeaux. This cuvée has both together. A fine pinky purple, not the deepest. Lifted small cherries. The palate offers significantly enhanced intensity, and indeed a fine tensile strength. At the moment a little wood, but in no way drying the fruit. Drink from 2032-2039. Tasted Nov 2023. Jasper Morris, Review Date: 01/2024
2022 Domaine Cecile Tremblay Vosne Romanee "Les Rouges de Dessus" Premier Cru
Price: $975.00 Your Price: $858.00 Quantity in Stock: 3
The vineyard Les Rouges de Dessus sits on the top of the slope in Flagey-Echezeaux directly above the Echezeaux Grand Cru site.
2022 Domaine Cecile Tremblay Les Beaux Monts, Vosne-Romanee Premier Cru
Price: $995.00 Your Price: $875.60 Quantity in Stock: 1
(97 Points) This exemplary Vosne Beaux Monts is a paragon of freshness and energy with a lovely depth of rose-petal-scented black cherry flavours touched with notes of smoke and leather. There is an uncommon purity of fruit; this has more precision and intensity to the structure. Tremblay is now working two parcels of Beaux Monts; this wine comes from the one she has worked for a while, in Les Hauts Beaux Monts, which she may or may not assemble with the other one, recently recouped from metayage to Michel Noëllat (tasted separately).(CC) Decanter, Review Date: 01/2024
2022 Domaine Cecile Tremblay Les Feusselottes, Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru
Price: $895.00 Your Price: $787.60 Quantity in Stock: 3
The name of the cru means "small pits", and the vines are indeed situated in a small hollow in the centre of the village between the two hills of Chambolle. The soil is not at all deep, which may explain the mineral finish of this wine.
2022 Domaine Cecile Tremblay Chambolle-Musigny Les Cabottes, Cote de Nuits
Price: $495.00 Your Price: $435.60 Quantity in Stock: 6
(94 Points) This delightful village-level wine is assembled from small holdings in Les Fremiers, Aux Echanges (both right under the premier cru band), and Les Maladières along the Route Nationale. The wines are gently fermented without pigeage, just very gentle pumping over. The result is marvellous, with dense, sweet fruit on the palate buttressed by firm tannins and abundant extract. The approachable, supple style is exquisite, and the refreshing acidity of the vintage leads the wine to a lingering finish.(CC) Decanter, Review Date: 01/2024
2022 Domaine Cecile Tremblay Echezeaux Du Dessus Grand Cru, Cote de Nuits
Price: $1850.00 Your Price: $1628.00 Quantity in Stock: 3
(97 Points) This seductive wine appeals along the same lines as the Beaumonts, yet there is more of everything – more lush, dark blackberry and plum fruit, more liquorice spice on the attack, and more density and tannic grip on the palate. The texture is velvety and dense, yet there is also great finesse and a concentrated, focused finish. The grapes come from two biodynamically farmed parcels in Echézeaux du Dessus. This wine should open relatively young and drink well for two decades or more. This is a magnificent wine in a great vintage.(CC) Decanter, Review Date: 01/2024
2022 Domaine Cecile Tremblay Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru Cote de Nuits
Price: $1950.00 Your Price: $1716.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
(98 Points) This superb offering has everything one can hope for from this appellation, yet it is a model of understated elegance. Initially with floral and spicy fruit intensity, the texture is silky and approachable, yet substantial extract and firm tannins make themselves felt on the long finish. Grapes are from the domaine’s 0.36ha plot in Les Gémeaux at the base of the Clos de Bèze slope. Despite its approachable nature, this has the substance to age for decades. Biodynamic.(CC) Decanter, Review Date: 01/2024
2005 Domaine Cecile Tremblay Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru
Price: $2250.00 Sale Price: $1799.00 Quantity in Stock: 1
(94 Points) I have had some lovely old Chapelles from Domaine Trapet from their golden age, and I was extremely excited to have an opportunity to taste Cécile Tremblay’s example of this underrated vineyard. Her vines are a lovely fifty years of age in Chapelle, and she has used thirty percent new oak for the elevage of this wine in 2005. The wine is also beautifully perfumed, as it delivers notes of black cherries, red plums, dusty rose, cocoa powder, blood orange, a lovely base of soil and just a whisper of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is medium-full, suave and intensely flavored, with a juicy kernel of fruit at the core, great elegance, bright acids, very supple tannins, and great grip on the long, velvety and utterly refined finish. Again, this is not a blockbuster in terms of weight, but there is no shortage of intensity here, and it has the flawless balance to age with tremendous grace. I wish more young vignerons were making wines like this. A very sophisticated bottle. (Drink between 2012-2040) John Gilman, Review Date: 11/2006
A bit about Domaine Cecile Tremblay:
Cécile Tremblay has quickly become renowned as one of the most gifted viticulturists in Burgundy, hails from an esteemed lineage of winemakers. The family legacy can be traced back to 1921 with the marriage of her great-grandparents, Edouard Jayer, a skilled cooper from Nuits-Saint-Georges, and Esther Fournier, who brought her family’s vineyards into the union. This marriage marked the beginning of their own Domaine, a venture that flourished and expanded under their stewardship.
The Domaine's vineyards, cultivated and nurtured over generations, were divided among their five offspring. Renée, their youngest daughter, kept her portion of the vineyards, employing the traditional métayage system. Renée’s daughter, Marie-Annick continued this practice alongside with her husband, they not only preserved but also added to the family's vineyard holdings, adhering to the métayage model.
Their legacy has now been passed on to Cécile Tremblay. Cécile was educated with a formal degree in enology and viticulture from Dijon University and assumed control of the vineyards in 2002. Armed with a formal degree along with a commitment and passion for winemaking and viticulture she launched her first wines under the label Domaine Cécile Tremblay with the 2003 vintage.
Cécile's wines were receiving accolades from the critics and collectors from the very first vintage. In just a few short years her wines were finding their way into the wine cellars of some of the most astute Burgundy lovers and adorned the wine lists of France's finest restaurants. In the early years, Cécile honed her craft in a make shift winemaking space in Vosne-Romanée, some referred to as a “garage.” In 2013, she was able to afford making a serious upgrade in her facility moving into a newly constructed winery beside her residence in Morey-Saint-Denis. The winery is also conveniently located next to one of the finest dining establishments in the region the Castel de Très Girard restaurant in Morey Saint Denis. The new winery is a testament to her dedication, sucess and growth.
Domaine Cecile Tremblay has accumulated a small range of appellations that boasts vineyards situated in some of the most coveted villages. The portfolio includes an exquisite Vosne-Romanée Village wine complemented by a small yet important .23-hectare plot of 40-year-old vines in the premier cru Les Rouges du Dessus. A distinct aromatic profile boasting robust structure this wine is produced from a 75-year-old plot of vines in the premier cru Les Beaumonts which until 2022 was a tiny cuvee (2-3 barrels a year). In 2022 Domaine Tremblay added 2.5 hectares of Vosne Romanee 1er Cru Beaumonts to the line-up. Previously the vines were coming from the family but were leased to other people, they also added a few rows of Clos Vougeot Grand Cru.
In Chambolle-Musigny, Cécile's holdings include .5 hectares of 50-year-old vines in the premier cru Les Feusselottes. These vines are alongside several village-level plots that are utilized in the Chambolle Musigny Aux Echanges Cuvee. This Cuvee is noted for its natural vinification process, avoiding the use of sulfur and only bottled in Magnum format. Three is an additional .40-hectare parcel of half-century-old vines in the Grand Cru Chapelle Chambertin which yields one of Cécile's most acclaimed wines which is only rivaled by the Echézeaux du Dessus, which is consistently one of the finest wines from that vineyard. The Echézeaux du Dessus, features 40-year-old vines and is ideally situated in the lieu-dit, bordering Grands Echézeaux.
The vineyards were in a bad state when Cécile Tremblay took over in 2002, weak due to an overuse of chemicals products.
Educated on the importance of the biodiversity in the vineyards Cécile started the long painstaking conversion process to biodynamic management immediately. The entire domaine was certified organic as of 2005 and biodynamic in 2016.
Cécile’s meticulous work in the vineyards is carried out the entire year and ensures that when harvest time arrives each vine produces fruit that best reveals each terroir. Just prior to harvest, Cécile spends hours in her vineyards testing grapes to ensure that the bunches from the bottom end of a row of vines, to the upper end of each row of vines are consistency ripe.
A first strict sorting is carried during harvest out in the vineyards. Then the grapes go to refrigerated trucks to spend the night. The next morning at the cellar, the grapes are sorted again and only them does Cécile decides whether they need to be de-stemmed or not.
Cécile does not have set rules her decisions are guided by the conditions of each specific vintage and how those conditions that year impacted each and every plot. After cold maceration fermentation takes place in wooden vats with only indigenous yeasts.
Cécile choses to use pigeage or remontage sparingly but it depends on the vintage and what she tastes in the wines while developing in the cellar. After a gentle pressurage, the wines are transferred into barrels for 12 to 18 months of aging with no racking. The barrels come from Stéphane Chassin, one of the best cooper in Burgundy. She has each barrel tailor-made to suit the identity of each different cuvée. Cecile selects each of the barrels meticulously and the location of the oak used to make the barrels is denoted on the barrels. Not many producers anywhere in the world go through such a rigorous process to ensure that every aspect of production is at the highest level of quality possible. All of Tremblay’s wines are bottled unfiltered and unfined with NO TCA guarantee corks.
To ensure authenticity and traceability all Cécile Tremblay bottles are numbered. In 2019 she added to each bottle a RFID chip to ensure the traceability. Cecile Tremblay also uses eProvenance services on all her shipments leaving the winery to ensure the cold chain is kept up during the entire process of moving the wines from start to finish. This ensures they arrive to the warehouse of every importers in the same condition they left the winery.
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