Domaine de la Cras, Marc Soyard "Coteaux de Dijon"
In 2013, the city of Dijon purchased a 160-hectare agricultural property called Domaine de la Cras, located just outside the city. They decide they want to release the land to farm the vines were planted there. So they taught to create a kind of competition open to winemakers: The criteria were: - The vineyards had to be farmed organically. - Had to be a young winemaker with no existing family vineyards. - Also interested in opening the Domaine to the public for educational visits. - The conditions that the winemaker pay a yearly “rent” of 2000 bottles per year to the city of Dijon. Marc Soyard was chosen; a young winemaker from Jura with no family past in winemaking or background on wine. Marc works for six years at Domaine Bizot in Vosne Romanee as chef de culture "vineyard management" also he helped Jean Yves in the cellar and was able to learn the winemaking process. Messieurs Soyard at Domaine de la Cras as the same hands-off natural philosophy