Vincent Paindavoine

The Paindavoine family have been in Vosne-Romanée for decades, but not in the way of a traditional multi-generational domaine being passed down from one child to the next. This is a tale of grit and determination to carve out a little patch of the most hallowed of terroirs. Vincent Paindavoine’s parents and grandparents were both longtime employees of DRC, working in the vineyards, tending to the most prized vines in the world. Beginning in the late 1960s and then in the 80s they bought tiny parcels in Vosne, working during the day for DRC and at night and weekends on their own vineyards. Aubert de Villaine even used to let them borrow one his tractors in the evenings. Eventually they were able to accrue a grand total of 1.5 ha of vines that is now under the care of Vincent Paindavoine.

Vincent has a long history of working the vineyards in some of the most famous sites in all of Burgundy. Since 2012 his day job has been as a vineyard manager for the Hospices de Beaune. He is one of 22 employees who work the vines, but he is the only one who works their Grand Crus in the Cote de Nuits: Clos de la Roche, Echézeaux and Mazis-Chambertin. While working for the Hospices, he has also been taking care of his family’s parcels, working organically and biodynamically. In 2022 he was finally able to make the wines under his own label, from 0.6 ha of these parcels. The remaining 0.9 ha are still legally owned by his uncle, who is also the current mayor of Vosne, so have to be labelled separately even though they are made by Vincent. In 2025 his uncle is retiring, meaning with the 2025 vintage Vincent will be able to label all of the 1.5 ha worth of wine under his own name.

Vincent’s long history of working in some of the best vineyards shows, with a gorgeous lineup of wines that announce a great new voice in one of the most historic villages in Burgundy. His organic and biodynamic practices, along with the old vine massal selection he inherited from his parents and grandparents, means he is working with beautiful fruit that allows him to work hands off, with minimal extraction, to make wines of pure elegance and class. With only 1 or 2 barrels of each wine produced, these are masterful rarities from a soon to be cult figure in Burgundy.