Domaine Sylvain Cathiard

Sylvain Cathiard’s grandfather, a foundling from Savoie, came to Burgundy and found work with Domaine de la Romanée Conti (DRC) and Lamarche, subsequently buying a few parcels of vineyards for himself. His son André Cathiard began to bottle some of the crop.

In due course Sylvain began work with his father but then separated to start his own small domaine, until on his father’s retirement in 1995, Sylvain could take back the family vineyards on a renting agreement. He has now been joined by his son Sébastien, and a spacious new cellar is currently under construction.

The Cathiards have 5.5 hectares of vineyards in Vosne-Romanée, Nuits-St-Georges and Chambolle-Musigny, including tiny holdings in Clos de Vougeot and Romanée-St-Vivant.
The vineyards:
Romanée St Vivant 0.17 ha,  Vosne Romanée 1er cru Aux Malconsorts  0.74 ha, Vosne Romanée 1er cru Les Suchots  0.16 ha, Vosne Romanée 1er cru En Orveaux 0.29 ha, Vosne Romanée 1er cru Aux Reignots  0.24 ha, Nuits St Georges 1er cru Aux Murgers  0.48 ha, Nuits St Georges 1er cru Aux Thorey 0.43 ha, Chambolle Musigny Clos de l’Orme 0.43 ha, Vosne Romanée 0.80 ha, Nuits St Georges 0.13 ha.

The vines are looked after meticulously with the fruit being sorted on a table de tri and destalked. After fermentation the wines go into barrel, with 50 per cent new oak for the village wine. The wines in their youth have an exceptional energy and purity of fruit. Elegant, silky, yet surprisingly concentrated, these are finely crafted wines - the Vosnes in particular are amongst the very best in the village.