Renaud Boyer's Feats of Patience

A chat with the reclusive, iron-willed Meursault-based vigneron, whose early mentors in Alsace helped him emerge as Burgundy's most radical natural winemaker.

Renaud Boyer in his cellar, November 2019. Photo: Jade Quintin.

Few Burgundy vignerons are as manifestly ambivalent about their native wine culture as Renaud Boyer - and few Burgundy vignerons have done as much to resist its dogma.

Diminutive, soft-spoken, and somewhat reclusive, Boyer inherited a priceless legacy of long-term organic viticulture from hi…