Maison Harbour, Meursault 1er Cru Blagny 2015

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Maison Harbour, Meursault Blagny, 1er Cru, Burgundy, White, 2015

About the Producer

Maison Harbour is one of the greatest discoveries I have made in Burgundy. When I first heard of Maison Harbour, I intrinsically didn’t take it serious enough to track down one of their bottles sooner (Let’s be honest, the term ‘Maison’ is not as favoured as ‘Domaine’ for many of us Burgundy drinkers)… I was wrong on this… The truth is, not a lot of people are lucky enough to have Grand Cru vineyard inheritance from their grandparents or have extra multi-million euros to spare for buying sought-after vineyards in Burgundy. Established in 2013 by Nicolas and Colleen Harbour, a married couple originally from the US and Canada. Their story began when Nicolas Harbour’s parents bought a family house in 1999, Nicolas travelled to Burgundy every year since then and gradually fell in love with this beautiful region. In 2012, Nicolas and Colleen decided to quit their jobs in finance and do what they both are passionate about, which is drinking and making wines in Burgundy. Nicolas and Colleen went to the wine school in Beaune, Nicolas studied the technical winemaking aspects and Colleen studied the commercial side of wine. Luckily for Nicolas and Colleen, they met a few classmates who were able to sell some of their grapes to them. Maison Harbour is an artisan winery, or ‘Garagistes’ as they like to call it in Bordeaux. The wooden fermentation tanks, labelling equipments, etc are all packed inside their ‘garage’. Their semi-underground wine cellar for wine ageing is perhaps one of the smallest in the region. The annual production range from 5,000 bottles to 10,000 bottles.