New Wines, New Faces: Burgundy's Labouré-Roi Redefines Itself

After making major investments, brothers Louis and Armand Cottin recently released some of their best-ever white Burgundies.
Per-Henrik Mansson
Posted: August 24, 2004

Burgundy is an insular, traditional place where it is rare for outsiders to establish a new domaine. So brothers Armand and Louis Cottin did the next best thing: They reinvented an existing one. The Cottins, whose family had been in the silk business in Lyon since 1811, were novices to the wine trade when they invested in Labouré-Roi in 1973.

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