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.
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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…