WINEMAKER
Maison Aymon - Nicolas Protin
Established in 2022 in Orches, Burgundy
Maison Aymon is one of those Burgundy projects that does not come from inheritance, noise or a ready-made domaine story. It comes from work. Nicolas Protin is based in Orches, in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune, and before launching Maison Aymon, he spent years moving through Burgundy from the inside: harvest in Beaune, Comte Armand in Pommard, Australia, New Zealand, the Lycée Viticole de Beaune, Terre de Velle — and then, from 2017, his own path as a vineyard contractor.
That part matters. Before Maison Aymon became a name on a label, Nicolas was already working behind the scenes in serious Burgundy vineyards, including for Maison Glandien, Guilbert-Gillet and Jean Javillier. This is not a project built in a marketing meeting. It is built from access, trust and real work in the vines. Nicolas knew the parcels before he started bottling them under his own name.
Maison Aymon officially started with the 2022 vintage: six cuvées, around 2,600 bottles in total, from Bourgogne Aligoté to Pommard and Gevrey-Chambertin. The scale is tiny, but the foundation is serious. He works with parcels he follows himself, with a cellar approach that stays precise: whole bunches for the reds, short macerations, pump-overs, little extraction and barrel ageing. Nothing loud, nothing overbuilt.
I tasted Nicolas’ wines at a Burgundy tasting and honestly, the reds completely got me. I was not just curious — I was blown away. There was something really rare there: precision, energy, depth, and that feeling you get when a wine is still under the radar but already way too good to stay there. Maison Aymon is young, small and extremely limited. But for me, this is exactly the kind of Burgundy project that matters right now.
