Boris Champy – the new man for Domaine des Lambrays…

16.4.2017billn

Boris Champy in action, right…

It is official this week – ultra-athlete Boris Champy will be the new face of Domaine des Lambrays – taking over the role of Thierry Bruin as he moves into his retirement.

Boris, who hails from a family of vignerons in Champagne, studied in Bordeaux and worked for the Moueix Family (Petrus, Trotanoy et-cetera) then had a 10 year stint at Moueix’s Dominus in California (1997-2007). In 2008 he joined Domaine Louis Latour in Beaune, and whilst we can forever-and-a-day discuss the wine-making at Latour, under Boris the viticulture was brought up to the highest possible level. Boris will be replaced at Louis Latour by Christophe Deola, production director since 2011, previously responsible for bottling, dry goods and Latour’s cooperage – Christophe is both a Viticultural Engineer and Oenologue.

Regarding Domaine des Lambrays, I asked Boris if he was happy or sad to have missed all pruning at Lambrays – “Well, it means I’ll have to wait for the 2018s to call a vintage 100% my own” he countered!

And for those of you that don’t know, Boris is a cyclist, marathon runner, ‘ultra-trailer’ and an Ironman triathlete – in his ‘spare time’…

Agree? Disagree? Anything you'd like to add?

There are 3 responses to “Boris Champy – the new man for Domaine des Lambrays…”

  1. Mike Golub17th April 2017 at 4:56 amPermalinkReply

    He has the experience!

  2. Marc Thompson17th April 2017 at 8:44 amPermalinkReply

    Get a photo of him there, not elsewhere.

  3. Luc18th April 2017 at 1:12 pmPermalinkReply

    I’m worried about the style CdL may take…

    • billn18th April 2017 at 5:15 pmPermalinkReply

      Why Luc – what direction do you think that it may move in?

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