Typically, Savigny is more Sunday-night-with-roast-chicken than let's-impress-the-client, which is not to say that it's simple.

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Hugues, who did a stage in Australia before returning home, is the fourth generation of Pavelots to tend vines in Savigny.

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The better Savigny rouges, particularly the premier crus, can be extremely complex, and they can age and improve for years, even decades.

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Prior to founding Savigny Partners he worked as a director of acquisitions for LVMH, and he sits on the board of ACNE, Lanvin and Tom Dixon.

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Transplanted New Yorker Becky Wasserman, also known as the godmother of Burgundy, told me a story about entertaining a client at a restaurant in Bouilland, a few miles up the road from Savigny.

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