If there’s one vigneron who truly exemplifies the direction we’d like to see Burgundy headed, it is Beaune-based Jean-Claude Rateau.
A pioneer in biodynamic farming and low-intervention vinification. Rateau consistently makes wines that are humble but hyper-focused. His wines are completely unmasked but not howlingly ‘natural’ or avant-garde. And he’s been using biodynamic methods since the seventies!


