Domaine Vincent Dancer Pommard 1er Cru 'Les Pézerolles'

Vincent Dancer arrived in Chassagne-Montrachet in 1996 with an engineering background and no winemaking lineage — a transgression that freed him to become the village's first certified-organic producer (2012) and to build a house style defined by zero new wood and radical non-interventionism. Les Pézerolles sits within Pommard's Premier Cru belt on argilo-calcaire soils — limestone and marl — with a southeast aspect that moderates the appellation's tendency toward density, channeling energy into perfume rather than mass. Yields are held to 15–25 hl/ha through horse-and-hand cultivation, concentrating the site's character without forcing extraction. In the cellar, destemmed grapes undergo short maceration with occasional punch-down only — no pumping over, native yeasts throughout; the wine then ages in 100% used barrels with no new oak whatsoever, a deliberate departure from the Côte de Beaune norm of even modest new-wood integration for reds. The result is bottled unfined and unfiltered under Diam 30 closure. What distinguishes this cuvée categorically is that extraction restraint: Dancer's Pommard reads closer to a Volnay in transparency and lift than to the structured, tannic archetype its appellation typically demands. The 2022 vintage — radiant and generous across the Côte de Beaune — gives the wine immediate aromatic openness while the low-intervention winemaking preserves the tension for medium-term development through 2032+.