Ponsot’s history begins in 1872 when William Ponsot purchased a wine estate in Morey-Saint-Denis and set up his home there. Five generations later, the estate is still owned by the Ponsot family. Unfettered by the latest fashions, Domaine Ponsot has always sought to express the richness of Burgundy terroir through natural cultivation practices. Human intervention is limited and only applied to the help that the vine needs. The family’s long tradition of letting nature take the lead means that today the vineyards are in exceptional condition.

In the vineyards, the grapes are hand-picked into wicker baskets and then transferred into small crates, ensuring that the grapes are not compacted and arrive intact for pressing. If sorting is necessary, it is carried out directly in the vineyard manually before the harvest. The wines are aged in used oak barrels (never new) for two years. They are generally racked once, if possible a long time after the second fermentation is finished. The wines are neither fined nor filtered and very little sulfur is used. A blend is made from each cuvée before bottling, and since the 2010 vintage, the wines have been bottled on a new ultra-modern unit, custom-built for Domaine Ponsot.