Domaine Leroy

Domaine Leroy is arguably producing the greatest Red Burgundies on the Cote d`Or at present. Lalou Bize-Leroystarted out as a négociant, working for her family's Maison Leroy, which was founded by her father, Henri, in Auxey-Duresses.

Lalou Bize-Leroy also owns a quarter of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, where she was co-director until the other shareholders ousted her in 1992, partly because she had started a competing winery. In 1988, she and investors had bought the vineyards and winery of Domaine Noëllat in Vosne-Romanée and renamed it Domaine Leroy.

Lalou Bize-Leroy has 23 hectares of vines, mostly Premier and Grand Cru classified. In the vineyard Lalou practises biodynamism as well as severe pruning and crop-thinning. The result is ridiculously low yields. All of her wines are amazingly concentrated and are the most highly prized and priced wines in Burgundy today.