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.

The village Vosne-Romanée is the house in miniature — assembled from parcels around the commune and made with the same hand as the crus above it. It is the bottle to open when you want to understand the domaine rather than cellar it.

2021 was a small vintage in Burgundy after frost and a cool summer, and what survived is defined by finesse rather than power. Red cherry and rose petal over sweet spice; a silky, precise palate with gentle structure and a savoury close.