Weingut Loosen and Burgundian partner form new negociant business

Ernst Loosen, the owner of Mosel's Weingut Dr. Loosen, has teamed up with Burgundy’s Manoël Bouchet  to create a new boutique négociant business specialising in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay after acquiring a wing of a Burgundian chateau. The new business, Perron de Mypont, was born out of Loosen's love of Burgundy, following his internship in the region in the mid-1988s and his recent acquisition of the east wine in Vieux Château de Puligny-Montrachet. "Burgundy is my passion, I've been going there for over 40 years and know a lot of people and that's how this opportunity arose," Loosen told German newspaper  Trierischer Volksfreund. Loosen, will work with Bouchet, a Burgundy native who has helped develop new barrel-making techniques with the University of Dijon as part of his role as chairman of the University’s Institut Universitaire de la Vigne et du Vin Jules Guyot (IUVV), is the co-chairman of the strategy and prospective department at the Bureau Interprofessionel des Vins de Bourgogne (BIVB). The two share a philosophy and will work together, and with Bouchet's extensive network of connections to source the best quality harvested fruit, unfermented must, and fermented wines. They will offer wines including an 'entry-level' Maison range, comprising a Bourgogne Blanc and Bourgogne Rouge and the Edition series of villages and premiers crus reds and whites. The wines are vinified at a custom crush pad, matured in barrel (both Burgundy 288 litre pièces and 400 to 600 liter barrels are used, with little to no new oak) before being blended and bottled. Some cuvees - notably in the Edition range - are made in collaboration with individual growers in their own cellars in order to benefit from the unique cellar environment and thus "capture genuine terroir expression,” Loosen told the Robb Report. “We collaborate closely on picking dates, winemaking practices, and the barrel aging regimen,” he added.