Former oenology-school classmates, and drinking buddies, Vincent Boyer and Emmanuel de Bar had always dreamed of someday working together. After graduation, Vincent returned to Meursault to run the family estate, Domaine Boyer-Martenot, while Emmanuel went home to Languedoc to tend his family’s vines in the Hérault Valley. Fast-forward nearly twenty years, starting with the 2018 vintage, these two friends finally came back together with the launch of Boyer de Bar. 

When Emmanuel returned to Languedoc in 2003, he replanted many of his family’s vines with more expressive and healthier rootstocks. Today, Boyer de Bar encompasses 45 hectares of estate-owned vines in the Hérault Valley as well as an additional 11 hectares of recently acquired vines in Burgundy on long-term contracts. 

All vineyards are farmed organically and in a manner akin to most Burgundy domaines. Plantings here are dense and harvest is done completely by hand. Vinification, as well, mimics a nearly identical process of Vincent’s top cuvées at Boyer-Martenot with lengthy vinification periods usually reserved for wines of a different calibre. This extended élevage is a rarity in Languedoc and what makes the wines of Boyer de Bar so uniquely special and delicious