Joseph Drouhin, Bourgogne AOC (Burgundy, France) 2020

Apr 19, 2023

By Rebecca Murphy

 Treat yourself to this bright, lively wine with cherry, raspberry fruit, spicy,  savory notes and crisp acidity.  It is at home with picnic fare, a juicy burger, chicken roasted or fried.  Twenty-two year old Joseph Drouhin moved from the Chablis region in Burgundy to Beaune to establish a wine company in 1880.  His son, Maurice, added vineyards for the company.  In 1957, Robert Drouhin took over, adding vineyards, building a oenology laboratory and hiring the first woman enologist Laurence Jobard, to run it.  Today Joseph Drouhin is one of the largest wine companies in the Burgundy region with 80 hectares (197.5 acres) of vines.  They grow their own nursery stock and farm organically and  biodynamically, using horses to work the vineyards.  As stated on their website “Our credo is to bring natural answers to natural problems."          

Country / Region

Burgundy, France

Appellation

Bourgogne AOC

Grape Variety

Color

Red

Vintage

2020

Score

92

Price

US $ 26.00

Producer

Joseph Drouhin