Burgundian négociant Jean-Claude Boisset will be using screwcap instead of cork closures for 2500 bottles of three top red appellations.

‘Screwcap is our future’, Boisset head winemaker Grégory Patriat said, adding that he had become a strong supporter of screwcaps after tasting a 1976 Mercurey that was sealed under screwcap and had aged very well.

‘I am eager to use screwcaps on top wines, for a change’, he said, alluding to former announcements made by other producers of their using screwcaps on regional Burgundy wines.

The 2500 bottles of 2003 Chambolle-Musigny, Gevrey-Chambertin Villages and Santenay 1er Cru will use screwcap closures ‘in order to capture the fruity aromas so typical of 2003’, Patriat said.

According to Boisset’s daughter Nathalie Bergès, the first batch of screwcap wines won’t necessarily be followed by the group’s other brands, such as La Vougeraie.

Written by Florence Kennel

Florence Kennel
Florence Kennel
Decanter, Journalist & French Wine Expert

Florence Kennel is a French author and journalist, based in Jura and specialising in wine. In 2012, she published Les vins de Bourgogne, a French guide to Burgundy wines. Since 2014, she has been a reporter at La Maison Écologique, an independent French magazine. Formerly, she worked as a translator and author at Hachette Livre, a French publishing group. Prior to that she worked as a writer at Le Point for six years, focusing on the regions of Burgundy, Jura, Alsace and Savoie.