On March 26, 2026, winemaker Guillaume Lavollée joined La Paulée guests at Locanda Verde Hudson Yards for a Domaine Génot-Boulanger lunch built around rare magnums and Grand Crus.
Amagnum-powered flightofPuligny, Meursault 1er Cru, Corton-Charlemagne, and Clos Vougeot,hosted byGuillaume LavolléeatLocanda Verde.
La Pauléehas plenty of headline-grabbing dinners,but if you want thesleeper hitthat feels like a collector-level Burgundy masterclasswithout the midnight finish, this was it.
OnThursday, March 26, 2026, La Paulée de New York hosts theDomaine Génot-Boulanger LunchatLocanda Verde Hudson Yards (50 Hudson Yards), with a12:00pm ET receptionfollowed by a12:30pm ET seated lunch.Tickets were listed at $695 + tax, and the tasting menu is paired to a lineup that travels fromPulignyandMeursaulttoCorton-Charlemagne (in magnum),then lands, triumphantly, inClos Vougeot Grand Cru.
And the part:winemaker & co-proprietor Guillaume Lavollée(who runs the estate alongside his wife, Aude) is the one guiding you through it,so guests were not just drinking great Burgundy, they were getting the stories behind the bottles, the terroirs, and the decisions that shaped them.
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La Paulée began as a traditional Burgundian end-of-harvest celebration,most famously associated with Meursault,where the spirit is generous, festive, and deliciously communal. The modern La Paulée tradition is also known for one detail that still makes wine people smile: everyone brings wine, turning the event into the classiest BYOB culture on earth.
La Paulée de New YorkisDaniel Johnnes’homage to that original Burgundian tradition, created to bring the same generosity and camaraderie to American Burgundy lovers. The first New York edition took place inMarch 2000, and it has grown into a multi-day program of tastings and winemaker-hosted events that reliably draws serious producers and serious bottles.
This 2026 lunch sits right in the center of that weekend,an “anchor” event that’s as much about learning Burgundy as it is about enjoying it.
If Burgundy is usually about specialization,one village, a handful of climats, a single narrow focus,Domaine Génot-Boulangeris the opposite in a useful way.
The domaine wascreated in 1974in Meursault byCharles-Henri and Marie Génot-Boulanger, and from the beginning, the story was about building something unusually wide-ranging: acquisitions first inMercurey, then expanding into core Côte de Beaune villages likeMeursaultandPuligny-Montrachet, and ultimately into icons likeCortonandClos Vougeot.
Over time, that became the estate’s signature: amagnificent mosaic of terroirs,with vineyard holdings that stretch from theCôte de Nuits, through theCôte de Beaune, and down to theCôte Chalonnaise.
A major turning point came in2008, when the next generation took the reins. Aude (François’s daughter) and her husband,Guillaume Lavollée, launched what the domaine itself describes as a new era focused onorganic agricultureandnon-interventionist winemaking.
That wasn’t a marketing pivot; it was a long conversion. The estate notes that after an officially recognized conversion period, the whole domaine becamecertified organic in 2018.
On the farming side, the domaine emphasizes practices designed to keep soils alive and vines balanced. They employ cover crops, composting, and ploughing. They even use more old-school experimentation likehorse ploughingin select parcels includingMeursault 1er Cru BouchèresandCorton-Charlemagne Grand Cru.
By Burgundy standards,Génot-Boulanger’sfootprint is simply unusual:22 hectaresacross30 appellations, with the diversity to move from Puligny whites to Grand Cru reds without ever leaving the estate’s own farming philosophy behind.
That breadth is exactly why this lunch works so well: the event isn’t just a single-vineyard deep dive. It’s a guided tour through the domaine’s range, curated to show how their style translates across terroirs.
A greatBurgundy winemaker lunch in NYCneeds more than great bottles - it needs a room thatfeels alive and a kitchen that understands pacing.
Locanda Verdedescribes itself as a neighborhood osteria servingChef Andrew Carmellini’s“urban Italian” cooking, and in2024it opened its second location on the street-level corner of50 Hudson Yards, bringing that downtown energy into a sleek new NYC neighborhood.
For La Paulée, that matters: this lunch is built around a tasting menu paired to wines that move from incisive white Burgundy into Grand Cru territory. The event is explicitly paired with atasting menu from Chef Andrew Carmelliniat the Hudson Yards location.
Translation:you’re not just going to“have lunch.”You’re going to sit down in one of Manhattan’s most convenient wine-and-food rooms, and let the kitchen carry you through a Burgundy roadmap,course by course, flight by flight.
La Paulée describesGénot-Boulangeras a mosaic estate farmed organically “with the utmost care,” and the wine selection is designed to prove it,moving deliberately fromPulignytoMeursault, then scaling up intoCorton-Charlemagne(with magnum-aged depth), and finishing with the muscle and mystery ofClos Vougeot.
Here’s what makes the structure so smart and why it’s the kind of lineup that’s almost impossible to replicate casually in New York:
Puligny is where Chardonnay turns into architecture with line, mineral tension, and precision. Starting lunch here sets the tone: this isn’t about flash, it’s about clarity.
You taste thesame lieu-ditacross three consecutive vintages, which is the fastest way to understand what vintage actually means in Burgundy without changing producer, winemaking, or terroir.
What to look for as you taste:
If Puligny is the line,Meursaultis the volume with texture, depth, savory complexity. AndLes Bouchèresis Premier Cru Meursault with the kind of natural authority that makes a lunch feel like a benchmark tasting.
The kicker is format: all three are poureden magnum, which tends to amplify freshness and slow down evolution. This is exactly what you want when you’re tasting older white Burgundy.
This is the moment in the meal where the room usually goes quiet,because you’re tasting how Meursault shifts from youthful generosity into that mature, layered place where the flavors get more savory and the texture turns almost “woven.”
Then comesCorton-Charlemagne, Burgundy’s white Grand Cru with shoulders where the wine feels taller, more structured, and more serious.
And again:magnums.
A 2009 Grand Cru white Burgundy in magnum at a seated lunch in Manhattan is…not normal. It’s the kind of bottle you don’t stumble into. It’s the kind of bottle you plan around.
Just when you think, “this is basically the comprehensive white Burgundy lunch,” the lineup pivots to one of Burgundy’s most famous walled vineyards:Clos Vougeot Grand Cru.
Ending here is a power move. It brings the Côte de Nuits into the story and turns the lunch into a full-spectrum Burgundy experience rather than a white-only showcase.
These three vintages are a particularly fun trio to taste side-by-side because they tend to show different shapes in the glass,so you’ll get contrast, not redundancy.
There are plenty of wine events in New York City. There aren’t many that hit this exact sweet spot:
The experience is guided byGuillaume Lavollée, who runs the domaine with Aude so you’re tasting with context, not just reading labels.
A three-vintage Puligny flight, a three-vintage Meursault 1er Cru flightin magnum, a three-vintage Corton-Charlemagnein magnum, then three vintages of Clos Vougeot.
That’s not randomluxury. That’s structure.
Magnums show differently especially for white Burgundy with some age. This is one of those “you’ll remember exactly what the wine tasted like” situations.
This is among the more convenient “destination lunches” in NYC: you’re at50 Hudson Yards, with a proper reception start, a seated format, and plenty of time afterward to keep your day (and palate) on track.
La Paulée explicitly pairs the wines with atasting menu from Chef Andrew Carmellini, a chef known for food that’s soulful, flavorful, and built for tables that actually drink.
Domaine Génot-Boulanger Lunch(La Paulée de New York 2026)
The La Paulée events tend to do two things at once: they feel like a celebration, and they quietly teach you Burgundy.
This lunch nails that balance. You get the pleasure,urban Italian hospitality at Locanda Verde, the buzz of a Thursday La Paulée room in Hudson Yards, and wines that are flat-out exciting. But you also get the education: vintage variation, terroir variation, format variation (magnum vs. standard), and the throughline of an organically farmed domaine that’s unusually broad for Burgundy.
If you’re picking a single “premium daytime” event in NYC that feels like a smart splurge,and a memory you’ll replay every time you drink Meursault,this is the one.
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