Pierre et Marianne Duroche is a small, quality-focused family estate based in Gevrey-Chambertin with holdings that extend beyond the estate’s core Gevrey identity into several of the Côte de Nuits’ finest villages, including a parcel in Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru Les Malconsorts. The Duroche estate has built a growing reputation among specialist Burgundy importers and collectors over the past decade for wines of genuine terroir character and the kind of minimal-intervention clarity that the finest small Côte de Nuits producers consistently achieve. Les Malconsorts, a 6-hectare Premier Cru bordering the celebrated Clos des Réas on the southern side of Vosne-Romanée, is one of the village’s most consistently high-scoring Premier Crus, whose clay and limestone soils produce Pinot Noir of exceptional depth, weight and aromatic complexity that places it firmly among the finest Premier Cru expressions in the appellation.

The 2022 Burgundy vintage was warm and generous, producing wines of outstanding aromatic expression and supple tannin structure across the Côte de Nuits. For a Premier Cru of Les Malconsorts’ inherent depth and the Duroche estate’s precision-focused winemaking philosophy, the 2022 vintage’s warmth should translate into a wine of considerable aromatic generosity and early accessibility while the site’s natural structural depth provides the framework for meaningful medium-term cellaring. Les Malconsorts has historically been considered a wine of the greatest potential from Vosne-Romanée, and a 2022 from a quality-focused independent small estate provides an interesting insight into what this site achieves in a warm, giving vintage.

Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru Les Malconsorts from a small independent estate remains a genuinely rare proposition, produced in limited quantities and distributed through a tight network of specialist importers who follow the Duroche estate with close attention. For collectors who seek the finest Premier Cru expression of Vosne-Romanée outside the most commercially prominent domains and who value the particular kind of site-specific transparency that small independent producers consistently achieve, this is a wine of outstanding interest and quality.

Deep ruby with a complex and rich nose of dark cherry, plum, violet, dried rose, spice, iron and the distinctive vinous weight and depth that Les Malconsorts consistently provides in the Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru hierarchy. Full-bodied with ripe, pliant tannins from the generous 2022 vintage, excellent natural acidity and a long, mineral, complex finish of genuine Premier Cru authority. Best from 2028 through 2042.