Established in 2013 by Nicolas and Colleen Harbour, a married couple originally from the US and Canada. Their story began when Nicolas Harbour’s parents bought a family house in 1999, Nicolas travelled to Burgundy every year since then and gradually fell in love with this beautiful region. In 2012, Nicolas and Colleen decided to quit their jobs in finance and do what they both are passionate about, which is drinking and making wines in Burgundy. Nicolas and Colleen went to the wine school in Beaune, Nicolas studied the technical winemaking aspects and Colleen studied the commercial side of wine. Luckily for Nicolas and Colleen, they met a few classmates who were able to sell some of their grapes to them.
Maison Harbour is an artisan winery.The wooden fermentation tanks, labelling equipments, etc are all packed inside their ‘garage’. Their semi-underground wine cellar for wine ageing is perhaps one of the smallest in the region. The annual production range from 5,000 bottles to 10,000 bottles.In 2013, they bought their first batch of grapes from 7 different vineyards and made their first wines of Maison Harbour. Both red and whites are normally aged for 12 months. The Pinot Noir are generally destemmed and partially crushed. Very light tannin extraction and punch down by foot. There is no racking or battonage for the Chardonnay. Pinot Noir are not filtered or fined.