Domaine Jean Tardy et Fils Hautes-Cotes de Nuits Cuvee Maelie

About the producer
In the beginning, the Tardy’s family was located in Flagey Echézeaux, a few kilometres far from Vosne-Romanée. In 1920, Victor Tardy start work at Domaine Camuzet as an agricultural worker and in 1945, Etienne Camuzet, representant of Côte d’Or gives him some vineyards in ‘métayage’ .

Jean Tardy takes over his father in 1966 and the Domaine Méo-Camuzet gives him some more vineyards in métayage to work , Nuits St Georges 1er cru , Vosne-Romanée 1er cru, and Clos Vougeot grand Cru until vintage 2007.

Since 1981, Jean Tardy gives a lot of efforts to enlarge his estate . After the purchase of few generic appellations , the Domaine gets bigger with 5 other village appellations, Chambolle Musigny (1984) , Nuits st Georges (1989) ,Vosne-Romanée (1999) , Fixin (2006 ) , Gevrey-Chambertin ( 2007 ) and one grand Cru in métayage , Echézeaux (in 2002 ). Hautes côtes de Nuits ( 2008 ) And now Nuits St Georges 1er Cru ‘ Aux Argillas’ from 2010.

From 1997, his son Guillaume was back on the Domaine and in the same time, at viticultural school in Beaune. Then, he went at university of oenology in Dijon. This is just since 2000 that he’s back for full time on the Domaine after 8 mouths work as winemaker assistant Picardy Winery (Western Australia ).

When he came back, Guillaume got in charge of the winemaking in 2001 vintage under the advised eye of his father.

In 2003, he became the manager of the Domaine , but kept working closely with Jean, combining the traditional knowledge and experience of this one and the actual knowledge and new techniques .