The Burgundian wine Domaine of Bouchard Pére et Fils can trace its origins back to 1731 though it is no longer family-owned. In 1995 the Champagne house, Joseph Henriot, acquired the company and quality has risen as a consequence. Today Bouchard is led by Stéphane Follin Arbelet while the wines are made by Philippe Prost who has been with the company since 1978. An impressive gravity-flow winery on the Route de Savigny, the Cuvérie St Vincent, was completed in 2005, enabling them, to process all their wines with optimum efficiency.

In Burgundy, "Charmes’ was the term used for the common fields left to lie fallow. The person who transformed this field into a vineyard was very wise. The oldest bottle in the historic collection of the House of Bouchard Pére & Fils is a Meursault Charmes from .....1846 before it was classified as a "Téte de cuvé e’ in 1855. A recent tasting revealed the extraordinary quality of this wine which still has potential even today!