Domaine Arnaud Ente

The Free Bacchus Story

Arnaud Ente was working at Coche-Dury when he married Marie-Odile Thévenot in 1991. The vines he began with the following year were rented from his father-in-law, the vigneron Philippe Thévenot. Almost nothing about the start was his own.

What he built out of it is four hectares worked by four people — Ente, his wife and two employees. That is the entire domaine. The wines are now among the most pursued in Meursault, which makes the arithmetic unforgiving: the demand is global and the production would fit in a large garage. Scarcity here is not a marketing position, it is the size of the holding.

The hierarchy runs on vine age rather than on classification. Younger fruit becomes the straight Meursault; vines planted around 1950 make Clos des Ambres, seventy years old and still not the old-vine bottling. That is La Sève du Clos, from individual vines believed to have gone in immediately after phylloxera.

Certification is Certipaq Bio under EU control code FR-BIO-09, confirmed in August 2026 against the Agence Bio register — ARNAUD ENTE, 21190 Meursault.

Until that check the row here read unverified, pending registry check, resting on a corroborated list of AB-certified Burgundy domaines rather than the register itself. The wines were never in doubt. The evidence for the farming was, and that is the only part this site is entitled to score.