CVJ & Co was founded in Paris in 2017. From the beginning we chose the harder route: working only with independent domaines we know personally, in volumes that reward attention rather than scale. Our group also owns and operates its own estates — so when we evaluate a winery, we evaluate it as fellow producers.
Estates where the person who signs the label is the person in the vineyard.
Organic and biodynamic practices, old vines, low yields — wines that carry their terroir rather than a recipe.
Small allocations mean nothing unless the wine deserves them. Ours do.
A partnership survives difficult vintages only when it is built on relationships, not contracts alone.
The fine wine market moves — and the producers everyone will fight over in five years are approachable today. Identifying them early is a core part of our work: we track rising winemakers across France's regions, taste constantly, and commit before the market does.
We also look past the edges of wine itself. Terroir-driven non-alcoholic products are opening a category that serious importers and distributors can no longer ignore — and we are bringing our producer's eye to it early.
This instinct is not developed in isolation. We work daily with cavistes, wine bars and Michelin-starred restaurants across Europe — the rooms where taste is actually formed. What we learn there flows back to our wineries and forward to our importers. We would never claim to set the market's trends; but we are close enough to influence a few, and early enough that our partners benefit first.
Domaines allocate to people who understand what a vintage cost them. We do.
We taste as makers, not as catalogue-builders. If a wine wouldn't earn a place in our own cellar, it doesn't enter the portfolio.
We know what can go wrong between vineyard and container — so we plan for it, disclose it, and fix it.