Henri Bourgeois

Henri Bourgeois is a wine estate in Sancerre, where the Bourgeois family has cultivated vines in Chavignol since 1696. The family also founded Clos Henri in Marlborough, New Zealand.

The organically certified estate makes Sancerre wines from Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Noir. The family cultivates the Côte des Monts Damnés, where Le Graveron is a Pinot Noir parcel harvested by hand. Grapes descend through a gravity-fed cellar without pumps, while wines from Kimmeridgian marl, clay-limestone and flint soils are vinified separately. In the white-wine cellar, single-parcel cuvées are placed in glass wineglobes, stainless steel spheres, wooden vats and amphorae. Henri Bourgeois’s wines include white and red Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé En Travertin, grown on clay-limestone soils.