Chateau de Pommard farms its monopole Clos Marey-Monge in the heart of Pommard, certified organic since 2019 and Demeter biodynamic from the 2021 vintage. The walled clos is one of the largest single-owner vineyards on the Cote de Beaune.
Tip: The estate runs structured tastings and stays in Pommard village; ask for the Clos Marey-Monge monopole flight to taste the biodynamic clos plot by plot.
Address: 15 Rue Marey Monge, 21630 Pommard, France, Burgundy
The sole owner of the Clos des Epeneaux monopole in Pommard has farmed organically with Ecocert certification since the mid-2000s and works the vineyard biodynamically, without holding a biodynamic certification label.
Tip: A textbook case for the certified-versus-practising distinction: Comte Armand is Ecocert organic and biodynamic in practice, but is not Demeter or Biodyvin certified.
Anne-Claude Leflaive trialled biodynamics from 1990 and converted the celebrated Puligny-Montrachet white-wine estate fully, earning Biodyvin certification in 1998. The domaine is the most influential advocate of biodynamics among Burgundy's grand white producers.
Tip: Leflaive's Macon and Bourgogne Blanc bottlings are the affordable way into a biodynamic house better known for grand-cru Montrachet.
Sylvain Pataille has farmed his Marsannay domaine organically with Ecocert certification since 2008, working a large share of Aligote that he bottles parcel by parcel. The estate is the leading organic name in the northernmost Cote de Nuits village.
Tip: The single-lieu-dit Aligotes are the wines to seek; the organic farming shows in their precision and saline cut.
The sole owner of the Clos des Epeneaux monopole in Pommard has farmed organically with Ecocert certification since the mid-2000s and works the vineyard biodynamically, without holding a biodynamic certification label.
Tip: A textbook case for the certified-versus-practising distinction: Comte Armand is Ecocert organic and biodynamic in practice, but is not Demeter or Biodyvin certified.
Yann Durieux founded Recrue des Sens in 2010 after a decade at Prieure-Roch. He farms biodynamically and makes low-intervention wines from Aligote and Pinot Noir with native yeasts and no additions, a reference for natural Burgundy.
Tip: Allocations are tiny and move through natural-wine specialists; the Aligote cuvee Love and Pif is the calling card.
Founded by the late Henry-Frederic Roch, former co-director of Romanee-Conti, Prieure-Roch is a low-intervention Cote de Nuits estate working whole-cluster ferments with native yeasts and minimal sulphur across grand and premier cru parcels.
Tip: The wines are cult objects with long waiting lists; the wax-capped bottles are an instant marker of the natural-leaning house style.
Like most top white Burgundy, Domaine Leflaive's wines are bottled without animal-derived fining, the unfined practice common to the region's grand whites. The biodynamic farming and minimal cellar handling make the wines suitable for vegans.
Tip: Fine white Burgundy is among the most reliably vegan wine in France because the best estates avoid fining; ask the estate to confirm the practice vintage by vintage.
