Domaine du Cellier Aux Moines Le Petit Cellier Givry 2022

Somebody pinch me. Premier Cru red Burgundy made by a former DRC winemaker… under $50?

And 95 points on top of that? This has to be a dream. Or maybe I just hit snooze too many times?

Nope. Wide awake. Senses firing. Caffeinated and fully jazzed. Because this is it, fellow Burgundy freaks — the bottle we’ve been waiting for all year. All the pedigree, finesse, and layered complexity you expect from wines priced 10–100x higher, now in a price tier where you can’t even find mediocre Burgundy by the glass.

And here’s the wild part: this tiny 50-case stash turned up like a forgotten treasure behind the proverbial cellar door. By the time we got word, it was already on a truck headed our way — leaving us scratching our heads that it was still available at all.

Wine Spectator explains the backstory better than anyone:
“Philippe Pascal didn’t want to spend his retirement simply drinking great Burgundy — he wanted to make it. After decades as an executive at luxury giant LVMH… Pascal purchased Cellier aux Moines, a run-down ancient monastery with vineyards, in 2004… In 2015 he hired Marko Guillaume, whose résumé includes Arnoux-Lachaux and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti. The winemaker introduced whole-cluster fermentation and a single-plot winemaking approach.”

Let’s pause on that. The cheapest Arnoux-Lachaux red? North of $1,000 — if you’re lucky. DRC? Don’t even ask unless you’ve recently won the lottery. And yet here we are, talking about Premier Cru fruit handled by that caliber of talent for under $50. Fifty bottles of this will barely get you one bottle from their former employers. The grapes, the élevage, the intention — all of it treated with the same haute-couture precision.

One whiff and it shows. The authority. The purity. The soaring aromatics, the silken texture, the perfectly judged oak. A Pinot Noir that plants its flag firmly in the upper echelon of the world’s greats — flawlessly balanced, texturally seamless, and layered with nuance that unfurls long after the last sip.

Even Robb Report, the final word in luxury lifestyle, has taken notice:

“Domaine du Cellier aux Moines now produces some of the most coveted wines in Givry… While Pascal’s wines are among the most expensive in the Côte Chalonnaise, the price gap between his bottles and those from the Côte de Nuits is still enormous. Which means now is the perfect time to buy for both drinking and cellaring: enjoying Givry’s finest could soon be a far more expensive proposition.”

Translation: this window is closing.

This may be your last chance to stack away genuinely investment-grade Burgundy at a price that feels like a glitch in the matrix. Get it now — before you wake up and it’s gone.