Olivier Bernstein Premiers & Grands Crus
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Burgundy
Hand, rock, leaf, shears.
Fall, spring, summer, winter,
Fall, spring, summer, Burgundy.
Since 2007 the wellspring
giving rise to the Premiers and Grands Crus
by Olivier Bernstein.
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The Maison
No. 4, rue Jean Belin. In the heart of Beaune.
La Maison. The House is the source of creation.
At all times private and personal
Often, also, the place for sharing and discussion.
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the Maison
Inside, outside, upstairs and down,
Stone, metal, wood, glass,
Space shared and also hidden. Is it a labyrinth?
To find yourself, sometimes you must first become lost…
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Details and Moments
“The simplest things give me ideas” said Joan Miró.
“Be simple, artfully” -- Nicolas Boileau.
Lure of
monumental cellars,
perspectives,
lights
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The Secret
Lure of monumental cellars -
perspectives, lights?
Yet it is in the cool humid secret of darkness
that the cellar “works.”
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Memory
“I remember that my grandfather
owned an original manuscript by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
I remember that during the 2002 harvest
Henri Jayer talked to me in his cellar.
I do not remember everything he said to me …
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Color
“…but I do remember realizing, in 2007, that I had no choice
but to work with the Pinot Noir. To at least try …”
Olivier Bernstein, in black letters.
Premiers & Grands Crus, in red.
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The Characters
The petit Monopole, the great Premier
the Prince, the most charming,
the Monument, the Storyteller, the Giant,
the Companion, the Queen, the King.
this simple,
almost childlike
yet compelling desire
« to make
great wines »
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The Theatre
Behind the walls at No. 4, plays out, secretly,
a theater of shadow and light. It conceals
and yet reveals, to those who pay attention,
this simple, almost childlike
yet compelling desire to make great wines
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Epilogue
“The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.”
The Prisoner: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 5
— Marcel Proust, translated by C.K Moncrief.
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End of season
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Burgundy
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The Maison
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the Maison
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Details and Moments
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The Secret
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Memory
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Color
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The Characters
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The Theatre
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Epilogue
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End of season