This very small, 4 hectare domaine was begun by Marcel Bocquenet and has been run for the last 15 years or so by his son Daniel.  Marcel Bocquenet's father was killed in the Great War when Marcel was a few months old, and although his mother remarried, they lived in extremely modest circumstances.  In his mid teens he went to work as a cellar hand at Geisweiler - one of the biggest négoctiants in Nuits St Georges - by the mid 1960s, through sheer hard work, he had saved enough money to buy some vines, and to build a small winery and cellar on the northern edge of Nuits St Georges.  Daniel has always lamented the fact that the 4 hectares provide just enough to live on, but not enough to employ any permanent help, nor to finance the purchase of more vineyard land (prices of which have been driven relentlessly upwards, and beyond the reach of growers such as the Bocquenets by outside investors).  Daniel has somewhat ominously talked about retirement - which may make 2010 his last vintage.  We hope that he may continue making his fabulous wines for a few more years yet.