Terroir View: Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat, Vosne-Romanée Les Beaumonts

Les Beaumonts or Les Beaux Monts .. both can be used and Vosne-Romanee Les Beaumonts is used on the excellent 1er cru from Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat.

Les Beaumonts is one of the younger wines in the Hudelot-Noëllat portfolio – with the wines being between 60 and 70 years old!

It’s not considered as one of the top end wines in the Hudelot-Noëllat portfolio, as the Richebourg, the Romanée Saint-Vivant, Aux Malconsort and Clos de Vougeot are considered more prominent. The Beaumonts is however a lovely wine in its own right – providing excellent drinking in my view.

So lets take a quick look at the Domaine Hudelot-Noëllat, Vosne-Romanee Les Beaumonts…

Wine and people

The Hudelot family have been in Chambolle since before the Revolution yet the current Hudelot-Noëllat estate is somewhat younger.

Hudelot-Noëllat was founded in 1962 by Alain Hudelot, and the estate today has 10 hectares spread over 4 villages and 15 appellations.

Alain Hudelot was in 1963 married to Odile Noëllat ₄ – the granddaughter of Charles Noëllat. Although his wife had a quite large heritage within the Charles Noëllat estate, it was going to take years before the heritage was released. All this is history now, and in the end Hudelot-Noëllat got it’s share when the rest of the Charles Noëllat was sold to Mme Bize-Leroy in 1988.

The Hudelot-Noëllat estate is now managed by his grandson, Charles van Canneyt, who took over in 2008 and has taken the quality to new levels.

While the estate is a bit more than 50 years old – inheritance and acquiring vineyards has brought both prominent and old vineyards to the estate.

So the vineyards are a mixture of Charles Noëllat heritage and vineyards acquired over the years.