La Famille
The domaine has been worked by a Saint-Cyr in every vintage since 1934. Of the four winemakers in our history, three are still alive — and two are still tasting from barrel.
Notre Histoire
Henri Saint-Cyr returned from the Great War to find his father-in-law unable to work the three hectares behind the village church. He took it on in 1934. He had no formal training. He had a horse, a cellar built into the rock, and the same vines that grow there today.
Three generations later, the inheritance has grown to fourteen hectares, but the vines, the cellar, and the rhythm of the work are the same. So is the principle: that wine should taste like its place, made by the family that has lived on it.
La Famille Aujourd'hui
Mathieu Saint-Cyr
Vigneron · 3e Génération
Took over the domaine from his father Lucien in 2014, after fifteen years working in Burgundy under Lalou Bize-Leroy and a year in Oregon at Domaine Drouhin. Mathieu drives every parcel decision and tastes every cask weekly.
Hélène Saint-Cyr-Berger
Cellar & Élevage
Mathieu’s sister and the second wine-making mind in the family. Hélène manages élevage in the cellar — racking, blending decisions, and the eight months of bottle ageing before any release.
Lucien Saint-Cyr
Patriarche · 2e Génération
Took the domaine biodynamic in 2003. Officially retired since 2014 — unofficially in the cellar most mornings, still tasting, still arguing with Mathieu about the rouges.
Quatre-vingt-dix ans
The domaine is founded by Henri Saint-Cyr on 3 hectares acquired from his father-in-law.
Lucien Saint-Cyr takes over at twenty-one; expands to 9 hectares over the next two decades.
First Premier Cru parcels acquired in Saint-Aubin and Pommard. The domaine reaches 12 hectares.
Lucien converts the entire estate to biodynamic farming under Demeter certification.
Mathieu Saint-Cyr becomes vigneron; Lucien remains in advisory role.
Hélène returns to the domaine after seven years at a Côte de Nuits estate; takes over élevage.
Ninetieth vintage. The wine is, in Mathieu’s words, “the most like grandfather’s it has ever been.”
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