Domaine Jean-Baptiste Lebreuil

Domaine Lebreuil have been making wine in the heart of Savigny-lès-Beaune for three generations now and is currently overseen by the steady hand and seemingly ever-present smile of Jean-Baptiste Lebreuil. It’s no stretch to suggest there are few producers quite as well and widely-liked by our team, our customers and indeed our other producers as ‘JB’, whose wines, much like him, possess real brio.

Having spent time making wine in both Argentina and Australia in the mid 1990s, before it was such a well-trodden path for young Bourguignon winemakers as it is today, JB brings a certain worldly experience to his work both in the vineyard and cellar.

In the vineyard Lebreuil follows a very considered approach inspired (though not strictly followed) by Biodynamics. Grasses and cover crops are maintained year-round between rows to improve soil life and aeration, and limited ploughing only takes place directly under the vines. From 2021 the domaine received the Haute Valeur Environnementale certification.

Few vignerons would count the extremes and unpredictability that accompanies climate change as a blessing but it is also fair to admit that some villages and terroirs have benefitted more than others. In the case of Savigny, a certain rusticity perhaps once associated with the wines is now giving way to a suppler style more readily approachable in youth, but there is still every sense that these wines have the structure and capacity to age for which they have long been known.