Jean-Baptiste Bouzereau

The Path

Since 1999, Jean-Baptiste Bouzereau has held the estate manager and overseer role at Domaine Michel Bouzereau et Fils in Meursault, Burgundy, France. The work is less a title than a set of linked duties: director technical, cellar master, and vineyard manager, each requiring a different read on the same domain. That combination of responsibilities matters in a village like Meursault, where consistency is built through repeated, practical attention rather than declared in advance. The result is a career defined by continuity, not spectacle.

The Work Today

The estate in Meursault still runs on close attention to vineyard and cellar, and Jean-Baptiste Bouzereau’s work there stays rooted in that daily discipline. His own comment on the village gives the measure of his outlook: the wines have changed over 20 years, becoming less rich and opulent than before. That observation is plainspoken, and it points to the way the domaine is read—by season, by style, and by what the place is asking for now. At Domaine Michel Bouzereau et Fils, adaptation is part of the craft, but so is knowing what not to move.

Signature

The signature wines here are Meursault Les Tessons, Meursault Les Perrières, Meursault Les Grands Charrons, and Puligny Caillerets. Together, they show a domaine working through specific parcels and named sites rather than a generalized house style. Each cuvée carries its own local reference, and that specificity is part of the estate’s identity.

In Their Words “There has been an evolution in Meursault over 20 years, the wines are less rich and opulent than before.”