Domaine d'Auvenay is a 21 hectares domaine. It’s a Leroy family estate, based on their hunting-lodge home and farmstead on the plateau behind Saint-Romain, and the home of Lalou Bize-Leroy. The winemaker is a highly-skilled professional, Lalou Bize-Leroy.

Lalou Bize-Leroy makes the best white wines in contemporary Burgundy. Her reds are also more than noteworthy, usually not textural and dramatic in their youth, but reveal their taste with age.

The top three wines of the domaine are: Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru, Mazis-Chambertin Grand Cru, and Meursault Premier Cru Les Gouttes d'Or.

The Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 2015 scored 100, the Mazis-Chambertin Grand Cru 2018 scored 99, and the Meursault Premier Cru Les Gouttes d'Or 2016 scored 99 by the Wine Advocate.

Robert Parker said: "The 2015 Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru is a monument in the making, slowly unfurling in the glass with a vibrant but youthfully reserved bouquet of buttered citrus, spring flowers, crushed rocks and crisp white peach. On the palate, it's full-bodied, immensely concentrated and extraordinarily multidimensional, with stunning depth and crystalline delineation, displaying a combination of three-dimensional structural finesse and searing intensity that is very rare indeed. The long and pristinely delineated finish is breathtaking. Having tasted all the likely contenders, I wouldn't hesitate to anoint this the white Burgundy of the vintage."

The winemaker of Domaine d'Auvenay is Lalou Bize-Leroy.

The story of Domaine d'Auvenay started in 1868, when François Leroy founded a négociant business. Lalou Bize-Leroy, François Leroy’s great-granddaughter, joined the family business in 1955.

The house of Auvenay started to be used in 1966 to host grand wine tastings and dinners. Numerous letters from Pierre Bocuse and the Troisgros brothers mention the incredible tastings organized at d'Auvenay and how special it had been to participate in such events.

In 1988, Lalou Bize-Leroy founded Domaine Leroy by purchasing the estates of Charles Noëllat in Vosne-Romanée and of Philippe-Rémy in Gevrey-Chambertin.

Her father, Henry Leroy, had bought half of the domaine in 1942. As a result, at the peak of their négociant business, the Leroy family was the exclusive distributor of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, internationally, except in the UK market.

Lalou Bize-Leroy has always worked with talented and dedicated people: Frédéric Roemer worked in the vineyards and the cellar for more than 30 years, and Gilles Desprez has been overseeing the distribution of her wines for years. Lalou Bize-Leroy manages Domaine d'Auvenay, part of the Leroy family holdings.

Domaine d'Auvenay didn't make any significant changes throughout the years. The viticulture and winemaking are kept at an incredibly high level. The practices of the current winemaker, Lalou Bize-Leroy, are considered the best in the area resulting in the top-scored wines of Burgundy.

Lalou Bize-Leroy started separating the pedicel from the rachis, her innovation. All bunches are thoroughly sorted and "resized". This meticulous work is done manually in the vineyard.

The whites are made using the age-old and classic methods with an old-basket press.

Both red and white grapes are then put into wooden fermentation vats. Every vinification stage is driven by the desire to preserve each terroir's identity. The temperature of fermentation can reach 33°C to allow more extraction of flavours, using only indigenous yeasts. The wine is then transferred to casks with its lees.

The red and white wines are all matured in new oak barrels. All the barrels for the domaine are made by François Frères. Lalou Bize-Leroy receives the very best oaks coming from the rarest forests in France. Wines are racked in the middle of their élevage and are bottled without fining or filtering.