Clos Des Songes

Livio Capaldi & Sarah-Élisabeth Henry

Clos des Songes is a new name in Burgundy, founded in 2025 by Livio Capaldi and Sarah-Élisabeth Henry in a redesigned old house in Bouze-lès-Beaune. Livio, a former baker turned food-industry entrepreneur, developed a deep interest in yeasts and fermentation through years running his own wine cellar in the Alps. Sarah-Élisabeth trained as a sommelier in Bordeaux before working three vintages in Burgundy, with Guillaume Glantenay in Volnay and two seasons alongside Étienne and Mathilde Grivot in Vosne-Romanée. Their paths crossed in Livio’s cellar, and a shared vision quickly became a winery of their own. A deep passion for wine and the desire to let their own sensibility speak. Production is tiny with focus on quality and built entirely on trusted relationships with growers, returning to the same sources vintage after vintage, since continuity is what deepens real understanding of a terroir over time. Grape selection is rigorous from the start: fruit is harvested into small 12kg crates, sorted once in the vineyard and again at the winery on a vibrating and sorting table, all inside a fully air conditioned space to protect the integrity of the grapes before vinification even begins. In the cellar, the philosophy is to guide rather than control. Interventions and additions kept to a strict minimum, with a preference for accepting a degree of uncertainty over intervening simply for reassurance. Reds are vinified 100% whole-bunch to bring freshness, structure, finesse and depth to Pinot Noir, whereas the whites are barrel-fermented on the lees without settling, pressed slowly in a vertical press to respect the fruit’s delicacy. Everything is aged 12 months in used oak — never new to avoid what matters most: grape variety, terroir and vintage. The result, in their words, is wine built to reveal an identity rather than manufacture a style.

Why Vibrant: An exciting micro négociant debut under two new Burgundy rising stars. Pure, reflective Burgundy with reds built on finesse and freshness rather than weight, whites with texture and tension rather than oak. A style defined by restraint: nothing manufactured, nothing imposed, just terroir left to speak for itself.First vintage, worth watching closely.

Côte de Beaune “La Grande Châtelaine” 2025

Grown at roughly 320 metres on the Montagne de Beaune, on clay-limestone soils studded with small stones over a bedrock of Jurassic, specifically Oxfordian, limestone — a stony hillside site built for tension. Barrel-fermented on the lees without settling to build texture and complexity, from fruit pressed slowly and gently in a vertical press to protect its natural delicacy. Aged 12 months in previously used oak, letting site and vintage lead rather than the barrel.

Vin de France “Les Gouttes” 2025

From Pinot Noir vines approximately 70 years old, in the Puligny-Montrachet area — clay-limestone soils at the foot of the slope, enriched by colluvial deposits washed down from higher ground. Harvested and sorted by hand, vinified 100% whole-bunch with 15–20 days of gentle maceration, then aged 12 months in previously used barrels with no new oak. Declassified to Vin de France simply because of where the fruit sits rather than its quality, this is Clos des Songes’ most free-spirited, approachable expression of old-vine Pinot Noir — unpolished by design.

Bourgogne Pinot Noir Côte d’Or 2024/2025

A selection of fruit from several plots around Pommard — Maison-Dieu, Les Cranilles and Les Blanches in the 2025 vintage — on clay-limestone soils with varying proportions of clay from one plot to the next. Whole-bunch fermented and gently extracted to favour freshness over weight, then aged 12 months in used oak. Built as a blend across multiple small parcels, giving a broader, more composite read on the Pommard area than a single-vineyard bottling would.

Santenay “Les Potets” 2025

From vines roughly 70 years old planted in the Les Potets climat, on clay-limestone soils. Treated with the same low-intervention hand as the rest of the range: 100% whole-bunch, 15–20 days’ maceration with gentle extraction, and 12 months in previously used barrels — never new oak — to preserve the freshness and finesse that old vines in this climat are capable of, without the structure being pushed by wood.

Beaune Premier Cru Grèves 2025

From old vines. Predominantly gravelly limestone soils mixed with clay, from the prestigious Grèves climat — a short walk from the historic Enfant Jésus parcel, one of Beaune’s most storied sites. Vinified 100% whole-bunch with 15–20 days of maceration, gentle extraction throughout, and 12 months’ ageing in used barrels only. The domaine’s Premier Cru statement: structure and pedigree from the site itself, not from new wood.

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