Domaine Faiveley - Volnay 1er Cru 'Santenots' 2020

In 1825, pioneer Pierre Faiveley (1792-1860) founded a merchant business in Nuits-Saint-Georges. His passion for trading and aging wines soon led him to purchase his own vine parcels and establish a wine domaine in order to grow and produce his own wines. It is under the next generation with Joseph (1825-1923) that the winery took important steps, in which they started to export to Europe and increase the holdings in the region, with the most notorious being their Corton Charlemagne and Corton Clos des Corton Faiveley in 1873. The third generation with Francois (1859-1918) had a difficult time facing the phylloxera crisis and he spent his whole life trying to protect their vineyard. Under Georges (1887-1968) command, the winery took another major step forward with the Mercurey acquisition and 3 Grands Crus in Gevrey-Chambertin. Georges also founded the “Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin” brotherhood with his friend Camille Rodier. Celebrating the culture of Bourgogne, its gastronomy