Michel Coutoux is the son-in-law of Michel Niyon, a top producer in Chassagne-Montrachet. Coutoux was born in 1969 to a family of wine growers in Touraine, and graduated from agricultural school in Beaune in 1987. He then worked as a stager at Guy Amiot for two years and at Bernard Morey for six months. During that time, he met Niyon's second daughter, and married her in 1991. He currently manages and operates Domaine Michel Niyon from the fields to winemaking together with his father-in-law, who has announced his retirement. Thanks to his work at this prestigious domaine, he got to know neighboring wine growers, and using those connections, he established this micro-négociant specializing in white wines in the Cote de Beaune. "In my work as a négociant, I don't go into the fields myself, but I know very well who is doing a good job in which fields. I know all the producers in Chassagne-Montrachet in particular," he asserts. By signing long-term contracts with these excellent grape growers, we are able to purchase grapes of the highest quality in a stable manner. Fermentation and aging are carried out in our own cellar. The wine is powerful and concentrated. 1997 was the first vintage. Annual production is only about 20 barrels.