Albert Bichot
Négociant and domaine based in Beaune, Albert Bichot draws on holdings and sourcing across Burgundy and Beaujolais, from Fixin to Gevrey Grand Cru, with a track record in both village and premier cru bottlings.
### History Albert Bichot is one of Burgundy's established négociant houses, founded in the late nineteenth century and remaining under family ownership across multiple generations. Based in Beaune, the firm expanded steadily through the twentieth century by acquiring its own domaine holdings while continuing to source fruit and wine across the Côte de Nuits, Côte de Beaune, and , less commonly for a Burgundy-focused house , Beaujolais. That dual identity, as both grower and négociant, places Bichot in a category alongside several other large Burgundian families who built their reputations on volume and breadth before the market shifted toward smaller, domaine-only producers. The house has worked to sharpen its identity in recent decades by emphasizing its estate vineyards under separate domaine labels, though the négociant side remains significant in terms of range and output. The result is a producer whose portfolio spans an unusually wide geography, from Fixin in the north to Pouilly-Fuissé in the Mâconnais and into Beaujolais crus such as Moulin-à-Vent.
### Vineyards Bichot's own vineyard holdings are spread across several appellations rather than concentrated in a single village. The house has documented access to Grand Cru land in Gevrey-Chambertin, including Latricières-Chambertin, and premier cru sites in Chambolle-Musigny and Pommard, where Les Rugiens sits on the steeper, iron-rich slopes at the southern end of the village. In the Mâconnais, the Clos Reyssié in Pouilly-Fuissé represents a delimited single-vineyard holding. Specific details on total hectarage, vine age, and row-by-row farming practices across the full portfolio are not consistently documented in the public record. Farming approach varies by site and sourcing arrangement; no blanket organic or biodynamic certification is claimed across the range.
### Winemaking Bichot's cellar work follows a broadly classical Burgundian model. Reds are vinified with varying degrees of whole-cluster inclusion depending on vintage and appellation, and aged in French oak barrels , the proportion of new wood calibrated to the wine's level, with Grand Cru receiving more than village bottlings. Whites see oak as well, though the house tends toward restraint in extraction and oxidative handling. Négociant cuvées and domaine wines may be handled somewhat differently, but the house style across the range leans toward legibility and typicity over structural extremity. The Moulin-à-Vent Rochegrès, sourced from granitic soils in one of Beaujolais' most age-worthy crus, reflects Bichot's wider geographic reach and is vinified separately from the Burgundy reds.
Wines
2023 Aloxe-Corton Les Fournières 1er Cru
2023 Mâcon-Lugny Les Charmes
2023 Bourgogne Côte d'Or Pinot Noir Secret de Famille
2023 Savigny-lès-Beaune Village
2023 Bourgogne Côte d'Or Chardonnay Secret de Famille
2023 Fixin Village
2023 Moulin-à-Vent Rochegrès
2023 Pouilly-Fuissé Clos Reyssié 1er Cru
2023 Chambolle-Musigny Les Chabiots 1er Cru
2023 Pommard Les Rugiens 1er Cru
2020 Bourgogne Côte d'Or Chardonnay Secret de Famille
2020 Bourgogne Côte d'Or Pinot Noir Secret de Famille
2020 Fixin Clos de la Perrière 1er Cru
2020 Chambolle-Musigny Les Chabiots 1er Cru
2020 Chassagne-Montrachet Morgeot 1er Cru
2020 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Evocelles
2020 Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru
2020 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru
2020 Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru
2020 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
2020 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru
2020 Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses 1er Cru
2019 Mâcon-Lugny Les Charmes
2019 Bourgogne Côte d'Or Pinot Noir Secret de Famille
2019 Bourgogne Côte d'Or Chardonnay Secret de Famille
2019 Chassagne-Montrachet Morgeot 1er Cru
2019 Chambolle-Musigny Les Chabiots 1er Cru
2019 Morey-Saint-Denis Les Sorbets 1er Cru
2019 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Evocelles
2019 Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru
2019 Criots-Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru
2019 Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru
2019 Fixin Clos de la Perrière 1er Cru
2019 Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses 1er Cru
2019 Griottes-Chambertin Grand Cru
2018 Mâcon-Lugny Les Charmes
2018 Viré-Clessé
2018 Bourgogne Côte d'Or Chardonnay Secret de Famille
2018 Saint-Véran
2018 Chambolle-Musigny Village
2018 Chambolle-Musigny Les Chabiots 1er Cru
2018 Morey-Saint-Denis Les Sorbets 1er Cru
2018 Bourgogne Côte d'Or Pinot Noir Secret de Famille
2018 Mâcon-Milly-Lamartine
2018 Nuits Saint-Georges Chaînes Carteaux 1er Cru
2018 Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru
2018 Gevrey-Chambertin Petite-Chapelle 1er Cru
2018 Fixin Clos de la Perrière 1er Cru
2018 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
2018 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru
2018 Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses 1er Cru
2018 Echézeaux Grand Cru
2018 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru
2017 Albert Bichot
2017 Bourgogne Côte d'Or Pinot Noir Secret de Famille
2017 Fixin Clos de la Perrière 1er Cru
2017 Gevrey-Chambertin Lavaux Saint-Jacques 1er Cru
2017 Morey-Saint-Denis Les Sorbets 1er Cru
2017 Nuits Saint-Georges Chaînes Carteaux 1er Cru
2017 Echézeaux Grand Cru
2017 Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses 1er Cru
2017 Puligny-Montrachet Les Perrières 1er Cru
2017 Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru
2017 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru
2017 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru
2017 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
2017 Richebourg Grand Cru
2017 Grands-Echézeaux Grand Cru
2017 Chambolle-Musigny Les Chabiots 1er Cru
2016 Gevrey-Chambertin Lavaux Saint-Jacques 1er Cru
2016 Fleurie La Madone
2016 Juliénas Roche Granit
2016 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru
2015 Morgon Les Charmes
2015 Clos de la Roche Grand Cru
2014 Morgon Les Charmes