CHAMBOLLE MUSIGNY

2008 1er Cru Beaux Bruns Domaine Thierry Mortet

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Nuits
Village Chambolle Musigny
Classification 1er Cru
ABV 13%
Vineyard Beaux Bruns

In the Mortet cellar...: Wow. After the village Chambolle had so impressed, this is extraordinary. Much fuller, sweet fruit, ripe and round yet with a crystal rock backbone. Black fruit, opulent, intensely long. Needs proper cellaring - from 2018? Then at our January tasting here, this graphically proved the difficulty in tasting these 2008s, as it was so hard and gassy as to be all but untastable, and this after the more advanced village wine had really charmed. It will be as first tasted, but watch the press reviews! L&S (Dec 2009)


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The Beaux Bruns has a sappy, redcurrant and raspberry nose, touches of rose petal and a little fig. Good focus, although perhaps just a little forced. The palate is medium-bodied with vibrant red-berried fruit, raspberry and strawberry with a tannic, rather masculine, biscuity finish. Fine. Drink now-2020. Rating: 86-88 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jan 2010)

Quite dark crimson. Obvious sweetness. Please all. A little bit of oak – a teensy bit confected but fair enough, good balance. 2012-2017 Rating: 16.5 Jancis Robinson OBE MW - www.JancisRobinson.com (Jan 2010)

Domaine Thierry Mortet

The domaine dates back to 1992, when Domaine Charles Mortet was split between Thierry and his brother Denis, and Thierry set up on his own with just 4 hectares of vines. Today he has 7.3 ha, of which 6 are red and 1.3 white. Only 4.36 hectares are Gevrey or Chambolle, the rest being a small parcel of Marsannay Blanc and regionals - Bourgogne Rouge and Blanc, Aligoté and Passetoutgrain.

Thierry continues to be praised in the French press without ever quite seeming to crack the influential American journalists. It may be simply because he is a bit short of fancy appellations - one little cuvée of Grand Cru would no doubt do his reputation a lot of good - but might also put his prices up, and these remain very modest.

In the vineyard, Thierry has been certified organic since 2007, but really this was just an official stamp on what had been the practices of the domaine since the beginning, and he is working towards biodynamic certification. In the cellar, the grapes are entirely de-stemmed, and given four or five days of cold maceration are followed by the fermentation, with just a touch of cooling to keep the temperature around 31-33C (below 35, at least), and two pigeages a day. The total time in vat can be as little as 17 days. The wines then go into barrel, all second use or older for the Bourgogne, with 30% new wood on the Gevrey, and 50% on the Clos Prieur, for a period of around sixteen months.

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