Seven generations, one village, and a lot of cellar doors

My name is Dylan. My family has been making wine in Morey-Saint-Denis since 1825, and I grew up in its cellars.

Le Clos des Loups is a place, a house, and the starting point of everything that followed. It is where I welcome travellers, where I show people the region, and where I have built the relationships that matter most to me — with the families who actually make the wine.

I trained as a sommelier-conseil at the wine school in Beaune and went on to take WSET Level 3, because I wanted the vocabulary to match what I had grown up tasting. Then I spent three years co-running a domaine in Vosne-Romanée. That is where I learned what actually happens between a parcel and a bottle: the decisions in the vineyard that no tasting note ever mentions, and how much of a wine is settled long before anyone opens it.

Since 2019 I have also been guiding visitors through this region professionally, which is its own education. Explaining Burgundy to someone who has never seen it forces you to be honest about what matters and what is just noise.

For more than ten years now I have been walking this region: the villages, the climats, the cellars, the domaines. I taste, I ask questions, I follow the work through the year. I look for young winemakers who have taken over the family domaine and are doing something serious, and for long-established families who work well without anyone talking about them. Often a few hectares, a few hundred bottles of a cuvée — their wines scatter quickly and are hard to follow abroad, not because the wine is not good enough, but because there was never much of it to begin with.

Over time, more and more visitors and friends asked me the same thing. Help me understand this. Help me stop buying by label. Help me find the wines that actually deserve space in my cellar.

Le Clos des Loups Wine came out of that question. The idea is simple: every member should have a friend in Burgundy. Someone who chooses the wine personally, tells you where it comes from, and puts you in direct contact with the family who made it.