About the producer
Leroux has made some of his most complete wines yet in 2024, in both colours, despite a season that gave him almost nothing to work with in the Côte de Nuits. The whites extend an already strong year for white Burgundy, but it's the reds that stand out: even, precise wines from parcels that barely yielded fruit at all.
These are limited simply because so little was made, and Leroux was already working in tiny volumes to begin with. He's a micro-négociant: every cuvée is small by nature, sourced from a single grower's parcel rather than an estate holding. Mildew and a cold, wet spring gutted yields across the Côte de Nuits worst of all. Across his various Nuits-Saint-Georges climats combined, Leroux would normally fill around thirty barrels in a typical year; in 2024, that fell to one, and premier and grand cru fruit that would usually stand alone went into wider blends instead. What's available is genuinely scarce..
The Côte de Beaune fared better, Meursault's premier crus holding at 48 hectolitres per hectare. Getting the Côte de Nuits fruit through took constant vigilance in a season of repeated rain; harvest itself turned kind, with a clean pick from September 13th and trouble-free ferments. "It was a difficult growing season," Leroux said, "but it was very easy to make the wines."
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