NUITS SAINT GEORGES
2016 1er Cru Chaignots Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg
Chaignots is to the North of the Village of Nuits - but on the Vosne side - so it really does display some 'Vosne' characteristics. More elegance - more lift than many Nuits. "Nuits 'a coté Vosne" as they say here. On the attack there us such a lovely amplitude, yet it is perky too - great acidity - lovely and bright. But really sensational intensity of bright fruit. Creamy pep of crunchy red currants. The fruit has depth and the tannins are silky. THis is an energetic, joy-filled wine - a beautiful, sensual elegant Nuits Saint George. This spends 18 months in barrel. 45% New Wood, 4 coopers - all light toasting. 2 months assemblage in Inox to settle. No fining or filtering. Bottled in same room as the élevage takes place - so there is minimal movement and manipulation of the juice. L&S (Oct 2017)
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The 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Chaignots 1er Cru has an impressive bouquet with well defined black cherry, raspberry, spicebox and rose petal aromas. Hints of Vervane tea emerge with time in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, well judged acidity, silky smooth in texture. I might have dialed down the level of new oak here, but that sheen that it lends to the texture makes it very seductive and it makes it feel very long. It just does not quite deliver the personality of the best wines from the appellation. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting. Drinking range: 2021 - 2040 Rating: 91 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Oct 2019)
More subtle if not invisible wood sets off the earthier and more evidently Nuits-like nose of red raspberry, dark cherry and whiffs of the sauvage. The more mineral-driven and sleekly muscular flavors possess a beguiling sense of underlying tension that continues onto the driving, super-intense and saline-inflected finish. This is definitely firmer and will need at least a few years of bottle age first. This too is very good. Drinking range: 2026 - Rating: 91-93 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2018)
Bright, dark red with ruby tones. Very rich, ripe aromas of black cherry, dark chocolate and violet. Fleshier and sweeter than the Vignes Rondes, but with lovely spicy lift and a touch of menthol austerity contributing definition and shape. Finishes spicy and long, with fine-grained tannins totally enrobed by the wine's mid-palate extract. Complex, saline and strong. Rating: 91-93 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Jan 2018)
The 2016 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Chaignots was matured in 50% new oak, and the vineyard was heavily damaged by frost. Normally there are 26 barrels, and this year there are 18 barrels. It has a deeper and more complex bouquet than the Vignes Rondes, with pure black cherries, blueberry and subtle violet scents. The palate is medium-bodied with a silky smooth texture, perfectly judged acidity, harmonious and pure, with black cherries, strawberry pastilles and a fine vein of minerals toward the finish. Superb. Drinking range: 2021 - 2035 Rating: 91-93 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Dec 2017)
1.26 hectares. This is floral, high toned. It is energetic and tight and sappy. The tannins are sprightly and there is a tension and minerality here. It has lively red cherry fruit. I really like this wine. You can drink it young or older - there is no aggressively in the tannins and the plentiful fruit makes it accessible. It grabs you attention. One of my favourite premier cru in NSG...and it looks lovely in 2016 -plays to its strengths. Drinking range: 2021 - Rating: 18.65 Sarah Marsh MW, The Burgundy Briefing (Nov 2017)
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.Please note that certain wines are on very tight allocations and will first be offered to customers who buy across the range. If you have any queries, please email our primeurs team or speak to your usual L&S contact. Please feel free to email us at any time. This list can include wines listed as available on the website, as well as those marked 'To Be Advised'. We will reply as soon as possible with confirmation of what we can offer. Wines bought en primeur are scheduled to arrive in the UK over the course of the next eighteen months. If you do not wish to take home delivery, you may wish to consider where you would like the wines shipped on arrival in the UK. Lea & Sandeman offers duty paid and in bond storage through a dedicated storage company called Elephant Storage. For more details on the terms and fees associated with storage please go to our Storage Homepage or contact our primeurs team for more information. While helpful, we do not require a firm commitment on delivery destination to process your primeur order at this stage. Our team will be in contact with you when your wines arrive in the UK to confirm the necessary delivery details. OFFER: All wines are offered subject to availability and final confirmation. PRICING: All prices are quoted IN BOND ex-VAT, by the case size stated. Please double check that the desired case size does match what is being offered as wines are variously listed in threes, sixes, dozens, halves and larger formats. DELIVERY - TIMING: This is a primeur offer so the wines are not yet physically available for delivery. They will be shipped to the UK over the next eighteen months. Generally, wines are shipped to your nominated location once the whole order has landed in our London City Bond account. If you require wines to be delivered by a certain date, please advise us at the time of ordering. DELIVERY - FEES: In bond delivery to an Elephant Storage account (for more information see 'Storage Options' opposite) is free of charge. Transfer of wines to any third-party bond (i.e. not Elephant Storage) will incur an administration charge of £16.50 + VAT for all orders under £1,000. Please indicate if you would like the wine duty paid and a duty & VAT invoice will be raised once all the wines on your order are available for shipment. Once the relevant duty & VAT has been settled, we will ship the wines to your nominated address as per our normal duty paid Delivery Terms. PAYMENT: All orders will be invoiced for immediate payment by cheque, cash, debit card or cleared funds to our account. We regret that we cannot accept credit cards for primeur orders. We reserve the right to apply a dunning charge of 2% per month on invoices unpaid after 30 days.ORDERING VIA OUR WEBSITE:
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