Pierrette and Marc Guillemot with their daughter Sophia and son-in-law Gautier include exactly what we love about French wine.

This is exactly the passage of the flame from generation to generation and the deep tradition that they carry and respect, but always bringing new, their own, ideas.

So French wine never stops having this unique "pulse" that characterizes it. Domaine Guillemot-Michel is a small family estate located in Quintaine, between the villages of Viré and Clessé, in the heart of the designation of origin, Viré-Clessé AC, one of the top in Mâconnais, in southern Burgundy.

In 1982 Pierrette and her husband Marc Guillemot returned to the Pierrette family estate and in 1985 took over full management. The changes they bring are cataclysmic. The estate bottles wine for the first time and does not give the grapes to the local cooperative. Until 1991, they have been certified organic and biodynamic, following a philosophy of minimal interventions in the winery. According to Pierrette, healthy and ripe grapes do not require the producer to intervene, they just respectfully follow the development of winemaking. All the years they produced a basic cuvee, the Chardonnay Quintaine, from low yields, with natural doughs, without barrel, without batonnage but with contact with the wine sludge for about 11 months in concrete tanks. However, the arrival at the estate of their daughter Sophie in 2012 brought new changes again. Sophie "inherited" the almost obsessive attention to detail of her parents, but together with her husband Gautier began experimenting.

Already, from 2015 they started to bring to market first a surprisingly refined Marc de Bourgogne (from marc) and then an eau de vie Fine de Bourgogne. The experiments do not stop with a shocking aroma of London Dry Gin by Chardonnay but also a series of special wines in small quantities. Among them a sparkling with the ancestrale method and a Chardonnay from ancient vineyards of the estate planted by Sophie's great-grandfather and a third wine vinified in amphorae.