The remarkably favourable mesoclimes of Gevrey Chambertin were known to the Romans over two millennia ago. They established the first vineyards in Burgundy here during the first century BC. The Dugat family can trace a history of local vitculture since the seventeenth century. One of the most eminent names in the Commune, they treat their fruit to a traditional Burgundian regimen of whole bunch ferments in old fashioned open vats, followed by an extended term of age in completely new oak, under the ancient cellars of the nearby Abbaye L'Aumônerie.