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ÉCHEZEAUX

2016 Grand Cru Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg

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Pinot NoirRedFrance,BurgundyCôte d'OrCôte de NuitsVosne RomanéeGrand Cru 13%Échezeaux

2 plots - one higher up and one 'Quartiers de Nuits' in town on the flat. Always picked at the same time and made as one cuvée. This is a really interesting mix - from the off. When co-fermented the harmony is seamless. Weight of fruit is wonderful. Riper, little black berries. But here is also a super mineral undercurrent. Grippy, but in a gentle, dusty mineral way. Intense and exciting. VG. Measured but full of beans and potential. Awesome. Just 4 barrels this year, about 60% New Wood.L&S (Oct 2017)

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(from the climats of Les Rouges du Bas and Les Quartiers de Nuits). A very ripe and ultra-spicy nose reflects liqueur-like aromas of dark cherry and raspberry that are once again trimmed in subtle but not invisible oak. Like several of the wines in the range the mid-palate mouthfeel is really quite seductive due to the abundant level of dry extract that only partially buffers the notably firm tannic spine shaping the dusty, powerful and very serious finish that, in much the same fashion as the Clos de Vougeot, is explosively long. This is youthfully austere but very promising. Drinking range: 2031 - Rating: 92-95 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2018)

(from the estate's two parcels in Les Rouges du Bas and Les Quartiers de Nuits, both of them frosted in 2016; just 17 hectoliters per hectare produced): Deep ruby-red. Very ripe aromas of black cherry, dark chocolate, licorice and flowers, plus a note of black pepper. Offers incredible concentration to its flavors of blackberry syrup and savory minerality, conveying an almost liqueur-like ripeness for a dry wine. Painfully intense in the early going but the big tannins are buffered by the wine's impression of extract. This wine will need extended cellaring to absorb its penetrating saline minerality. I can understand why Marie-Christine Mugneret presented this wine last. Rating: 93-95 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Jan 2018)

The 2016 Echezeaux Grand Cru was reduced to four barrels this year since the frost extirpated Les Rouges du Bas and Quartiers de Nuits (60% of the fruit). It is matured in 50% new oak. It has a very intense bouquet with more blue fruit than I have noticed in recent vintages. This actually reminds me more of a Romanée-Saint-Vivant! The palate is medium-bodied, with very fine tannin and perfect acidity, sensual and harmonious with a really poised finish that takes your breath away. This is an outstanding Echézeaux considering what they faced and up there with the ethereal 2015. Does anyone produce Echézeaux as good as this? Drinking range: 2022 - 2045 Rating: 93-95 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Dec 2017)

Usually 8 barrels, so only four in 2016. 60% new oak - “not too much oak - blond toast only” Satin dark fruits. Silky and gorgeous; inky depth and density..so sweepingly urbane. Very fresh through this. There is strict, cool note to the finish, wrapped in lovely sweet fruit. The finish is mineral and very long. It’s a refined Echèzeaux. It is among the best of the 2016 Echèzeaux.Sarah Marsh MW, The Burgundy Briefing (Nov 2017)

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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