Domaine Méo-Camuzet traces back to Étienne Camuzet (1867–1946), mayor of Vosne-Romanée and the deputy who pushed through the amendment creating the Appellations d’Origine in 1919. He bought the Château du Clos de Vougeot in 1920, and sold it to the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin in 1944.

The estate passed to Jean Méo in 1959. Working in de Gaulle’s cabinet in Paris, he let the vines to tenant growers — among them Henri Jayer, who established here the temperature-controlled vinifications that put freshness and fruit ahead of extraction. The domaine took the name Méo-Camuzet in 1981; the first bottlings under it are from the 1983 vintage.

Jean-Nicolas Méo took over in 1989, aged twenty, having learned directly from Jayer and Christian Faurois before finding his own line. Since 2008 he farms every parcel himself.

Les Cras sits on the upper slope at the Morey end of Chambolle, on thin, stony soil over hard limestone. It gives the village’s trademark lace with a firmer mineral spine underneath.

2022 brought ripeness without heaviness here. Raspberry and violet over crushed stone, a fine and lacy palate with delicate tannins, and length carried by minerality rather than weight. Chambolle as it should read.