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NUITS SAINT GEORGES

2015 1er Cru Chaignots Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Nuits
Village Nuits Saint Georges
Classification 1er Cru
ABV 13.5%
Vineyard Chaignots

Very deep colour; like a lot of wines this year this is really almost black at the centre, and the fruit expression is very dark, almost Nebbiolo-like black fruit flavours, lovely sweetness, rich, and its structure is severe but also a joy, bouncy and pinging with flavour, and finishing saline and elegant. Drinking range: 2024 - L&S (Nov 2016)


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The 2015 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru has a lovely, open, welcoming bouquet of red cherry, wild strawberry, orange blossom and light marmalade scents that seem to gain intensity with a few swirls of the glass. The poised, harmonious palate is well balanced with a fine bead of acidity. A complex, slightly earthy finish leaves brown spices lingering on the aftertaste. This is a divine expression of both appellation and vintage. Bon vin! Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting. Drinking range: 2019 - 2032 Rating: 92 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Nov 2018)

A distinctly spicy nose offers up ripe aromas of cassis, plum, mocha and violet that are trimmed in subtle earth nuances. There is fine volume and mid-palate density to the strikingly rich and suave medium-bodied flavors that display excellent persistence and complexity on the firm and lightly mineral-suffused finish that, like the Vignes Rondes, flashes a hint of dryness though in this case, I suspect that it will eventually come together and my rating offers the benefit of the doubt. Drinking range: 2025 - Rating: 91 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2018)

Good full red. Ripe raspberry, cherry, mocha and spice aromas verge on liqueur-like. Then much more generous and complex in the mouth than the Vignes Rondes, with its thick dark fruit flavors leavened by a note of rose petal and ripe acidity. Less taut than the 2016 version and perhaps more typical for this bottling. This very well balanced wine finishes with superb spicy, floral, rising length. Much sweeter than the Vignes Rondes, with far more refined tannins, but it's hard to believe that a wine like this won't shut down in the bottle at some point. Drinking range: 2025 - 2034 Rating: 92 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Jan 2018)

Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg

Domaine Mugneret-Gibourg was founded in 1933 on the marriage of Jeanne Gibourg and André Mugneret. Holdings then consisted of Bourgogne, village Nuits, village Vosne and Echezeaux. Their son Georges, an opthalmologist by day, added to the vineyards, but his acquisitions (Nuits 1ers Crus Vignes Rondes and Chaignots, Chambolle 1er Cru Feusselottes, and Grands Crus Clos Vougeot and Ruchottes Chambertin) were kept separate as Domaine Georges Mugneret.

On Georges' death in 1988, his widow Jacqueline and daughter Marie-Christine took over. Marie-Andrée, the younger daughter joined them a little later having completed her studies as an oenologist. In 2009 Jacqueline retired and the two domaine names were put together to become Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg, ending the prior confusion of labels.

The sisters have proved more than safe hands as far as the winemaking is concerned, and these are top-flight Burgundies with that elusive balance of enough concentration allied with delicacy of expression and the capability to age well. All the vineyard management has been brought in-house (the domaine previously relied on two métayeurs for part of the vineyard) and the quality has reached new heights, its wines some of the most sought-after in the Côte de Nuits.

In 2017 Marie-Christine 's daughter Lucie joined the domaine, and Marion and Fanny, daughters of Marie-Andrée are now also part of the team.

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