Bertrand and Axelle MACHARD-de-GRAMONT

The Winery Bertrand and Axelle Machard de Gramont is a relatively small Winery in the commune of Nuits-Saint-Georges. A Winery of 6 hectares in total, located mainly in the Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation, but also with parcels in Vosne-Romanée and Vergy.

The Winery founded in 1984 by Bertrand, Axelle’s father. Before that, he had been working with two of his brothers. One of them married Chantal Lescure, who owned many vineyards and homes in the region. Winery , they established a Winery covering 32 hectares, with vineyards in Vosne-Romanée, Pommard, Meursault, Puligny-Montrachet, Les Vallerots, and Nuits-Saint-Georges—all in the beautiful and vast region of Burgundy. Eventually, they decided to go their separate ways.

This large Winery been divided into three estates:

• Winery Chantal Lescure in Nuits-Saint-Georges,
• Winery Machard de Gramont in Prémeaux-Prissey
• Winery Bertrand Machard de Gramont in Nuits-Saint-Georges (now called Bertrand and Axelle Machard de Gramont)

In 2001, the vineyard’s area reached 6 ha thanks to the spectacular terraced replanting of the “climat” of Les Vallerots on virgin land that had been partially abandoned since the phylloxera crisis.

From the ages of 20 to 35, Axelle Machard lived in Paris. Then, in 2004, she returned to Burgundy to take on the challenge of becoming Winemaker. Today, she runs the Winery with her father’s support. She crafts elegant, precise, and refined wines. The winemaking process is gentle and delicate. It was Axelle who spearheaded the effort to obtain organic certification, which was granted in 2014!

Here is a Winery does an admirable job of truly seeking to express the “climat”—a powerful and iconic concept in Burgundy—in each of its wines.