Gouges nuits st georges blanc biography

Tasted in Nuits with Gregory Gouges, 3rd December, 2014.

Domaine Henri Gouges
7 Rue du Moulin
21700 Nuits St.Georges
Tel: +33 3 80 61 04 40
www.gouges.com

Although the family had been involved with the vines for very much longer, Henri Gouges formed this Domaine in 1920.

He was soon looking to break out from the mold of simply selling his produce to the négociants and in the early 1930s become one of a handful of pioneering domaines that decided to bottle and sell their own wine. First the wines were being sold in Paris and then via importer Frank Schoonmaker into the US with the other early bottlers Rousseau, Tollot-Beaut and Angerville.

The domaine passed from Henri to his sons Marcel and Michel in 1967, before moving onto the next generation of Pierre and Christian Gouges, who in turn see their sons, Gregory and Antoine Gouges taking greater roles.

This domaine is possible the most well-known of Nuits St.Georges though its premier cru vines are almost exclusively betw