The history of Dubois winegrowers begins around 1600 with the birth of Emiland Dubois, the first ancestor and winegrower to be found in official records.

More recently, Louis Dubois (1874 - 1947) took over his first plot of vines in 1898, then developed the estate with 2 hectares of vines in the village of Premeaux-Prissey and Nuits-Saint-Georges.

His son, Robert (1910 – 2004), devoted his life to the estate’s vines, and further increased its size by acquiring his first Nuits Premier Cru plot in 1961.

Régis Dubois (born 1939), took up the reins with his wife Christiane, and extended the vineyard from 4 to 10 hectares, and then to 20 hectares.  He began to make the most of the wines by bottling the produce from 1969 onwards.

Since 2006, the vineyard has been managed by Raphaël and Béatrice Dubois.
Raphaël is in charge of marketing the wines and external public relations. Béatrice is an oenologist who is truly passionate about wine.  She divides her time between producing, analysing and monitoring the estate’s wines, and customer tastings all over the world, which have now replaced her vinification work in the southern hemisphere.

500 BC: Birth of the vineyard

5^th century: Celebration of “the vine-covered hills” by Gregory of Tours

10^th century: First period of growth, with “the wine of the monks”

14^th century: Second period of growth, with the “Dukes of Burgundy”

18^th century: Importance of the role of wine merchants (improvement in road network)

19^th century: Opening of Burgundy canal, creation of railway line between Paris and Dijon, free trade treaty between the French Second Empire and Germany, Belgium, Holland and Great Britain.

20^th century: Establishment of the Appellations d’Origine Contrôlées (AOC) system

When the vineyards were reorganised in the early 20th century, Burgundy wines found themselves in competition with others, leading to the introduction of a raft of legislation in 1905, 1919, and finally the creation of the INAO in 1935. This institute’s regulations helped boost sales, and still determine wine production conditions today.
  

The Burgundy wine industry represents*: 27,700 hectares divided across five major terroirs (from North to South):

• Chablisien and Auxerrois
• Côte de Nuits
• Côte de Beaune
• Côte Chalonnaise
• Mâconnais

An average production of : 1,530,000 hl : 61% white wines, 31% red (and rosé) wines and 8% crémants.

A wide range of wines : 100 appellations (55% white wines, 45% red wines)

*Source : Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB)