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The basket press — a traditional vertical press in which grapes are loaded into a slatted wooden or stainless steel cylinder and pressed slowly from above — is one of the gentlest ways to extract juice from grapes. Unlike modern pneumatic presses, the basket press applies pressure gradually and evenly, extracting clean juice without excessive bitterness or astringency from the skins and seeds.
Le Grappin and Du Grappin use a basket press for all wines — the same press, in the same cellar in the Hautes Côtes de Beaune, for every wine Andrew and Emma Nielsen make. The Du Grappin Vézelay Blanc is slowly pressed over several hours before the juice is chilled and racked to barrel. The Du Grappin Bourgogne Aligoté is foot-crushed and basket-pressed — a particularly gentle approach for a grape variety that can produce harsh results if handled roughly.
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Le Grappin
Andrew and Emma Nielsen. Wines from specific, organically farmed parcels across Burgundy and Beaujolais, made and bottled by hand.
Domaine Amiot et Fils
Ten generations in Morey-Saint-Denis since 1702. Named Vigneron de l’Année 2026 — Bourgogne by the Guide Hachette des Vins.
Domaine Charlopin-Tissier
Yann Charlopin and Justine Tissier brought two family vineyard holdings together in 2013. Gevrey-Chambertin winery with vineyards across the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune.
Domaine Buisson-Battault
Fifth-generation family domaine in Meursault. Farming the same plots since the 1920s, across fourteen appellations from Bourgogne to Premier Cru.
Mark Haisma
Australian-born, trained at Yarra Yering in Victoria. Based in Gevrey-Chambertin since 2007. Named one of Tim Atkin’s Top 25 Producers to Watch.
Champagne Pierre Deville
Fourth-generation grower in Verzy Grand Cru, working five hectares of chalk soils on the Montagne de Reims. Biodynamic farming, hand harvesting, indigenous yeasts, old oak.
Champagne Antoine Bouvet
Fifth-generation grower farming 5.5 hectares across Mareuil-sur-Aÿ, Bisseuil, and Avenay Val d’Or. Biodynamic, old oak only, with some wines resting four or more years before release.
Champagne Hélène Charbaut
Fourth-generation grower in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ and Bisseuil, working a family cave that dates to 1937. All five cuvées are Premier Cru: four single-variety wines and a Pinot Noir-led blend.
Champagne Pascal Lejeune
Family domaine on the south-facing slopes of the Coteaux Sud d’Épernay. One of the first in Champagne to plant cover crops between vine rows.
