The Daux family arrived in Rully in 1983, moving from Mâcon area. As Vincent says, Rully is a truly welcoming place – something that I can confirm from experience. Vincent's problem – or perhaps his opportunity, although the situation certainly presents him with a challenge – is that his vineyards haven’t been awarded Premier Cru status.

Premier Cru vineyards are vineyards which produce wine of exceptional quality by virtue of their soil and the sunlight they receive, with the wine produced fetching a correspondingly high price. Not having this classification has lead Vincent to pay particular attention the Village wines he produces. He harvests and processes grapes from each of his plots, or parcelles, separately, which gives him the right to use the name of each individual parcelle as well as the Rully name on labels, thus giving full voice to and acknowledging each wine's own individual terroir, its specific local characteristics. This approach has stood him in good stead in wine competitions held in Paris and Mâcon, at which he has won a number of prizes.

At regional level, Vincent has been awarded the "Trophée Jeune Talent", a prize recognising young talent which is voted for by two panels of judges, one made up of men and one of women. This detail serves as a reminder to us that personal sensitivity is a key factor when evaluating wine. The candidates are awarded marks not for particular wines but rather for the full range of their wines overall – for one Burgundy, one Village wine and one Premier Cru. Vincent doesn't produce Premiers Crus, so he entered two Rully village wines, which the judges clearly didn’t object to as he went on to win the award in recognition of the uniformly high standard of his work.

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