Arnaud Ente

### History Arnaud Ente built his domaine quietly over the course of the 1990s and 2000s, acquiring small parcels across Meursault and into Puligny-Montrachet. He worked for a period under Comtes Lafon before establishing his own operation, and the influence of that apprenticeship shows in his approach: meticulous vineyard work, low yields, and unhurried cellaring. The domaine remains small by design, with production limited enough that bottles rarely appear outside tight négociant and importeur networks. Ente is not a name built on marketing; his reputation rests almost entirely on the wines themselves, which accumulated serious critical attention through the 2000s and have since become genuinely difficult to source.

### Vineyards Ente farms parcels in several of Meursault's most important lieux-dits, including the premier cru La Goutte d'Or, one of the village's warmer, more sheltered sites sitting on Bathonian limestone with a golden-tinged clay-limestone mix that tends to produce broad, rich whites. He also works the Clos des Ambres, a walled village-level parcel, and Les Petits Charrons, another village site. His Puligny-Montrachet holding in Les Referts, a premier cru bordering the Meursault boundary, adds a leaner, more tensile register to the range. Specific farming certifications are not widely documented, but Ente is understood to work with low intervention in the vineyard and keeps yields deliberately tight.

### Winemaking Fermentation is carried out in barrel using native yeasts, with extended lees aging that typically runs longer than the Meursault norm. The wines spend considerable time in oak before bottling, with a restrained proportion of new wood that avoids overwhelming the fruit. They are known for being closed and compressed in youth, sometimes to the point of austerity, and reward patience more than most village-level Burgundy. Filtration is minimal or foregone entirely. The style sits closer to the nervous, mineral end of the Meursault spectrum than to the rounder, more immediately generous profile associated with many of the village's larger houses. Bottles are released in small quantities and are best given several years before opening.