2016 RUCHOTTES CHAMBERTIN Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg, Lea & Sandeman

RUCHOTTES CHAMBERTIN

2016 Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg

Grapes Pinot Noir
Colour Red
Origin France, Burgundy
District Côte d'Or
Sub-district Côte de Nuits
Village Gevrey Chambertin
Classification Grand Cru
ABV 13.5%
Vineyard Ruchottes Chambertin

More intense, savoury. Curled up. Stones/clay note. Almost plasticine. But wow there is power and unfurled intensity - a real weight. Dark fruit. Pithy blueberry and firm blackberries. Mineral core too. Very impressive - no hard edges, nothing sticks out, this is an imposing mass of gentle power and flavour. Minerality is dominant for now. This year they have added in a parcel of younger vines (planted in 2000) formerly declared as Gevrey - now mature enough to go into this - and add a brighter, more accessible note on the attack - that clear fruit. Very Good, but will need some time.. 70% New Wood They have 0.60 of a hectare made up of three growers - Rousseau, Roumier and them. Just 3 HA in total. They are in 'Ruchottes du Bas' with the forest right behind them which protects the vines there from some frost. L&S (Oct 2017)


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The 2016 Ruchottes-Chambertin Grand Cru has a generous and vivacious bouquet with copious blueberry and red cherry fruit, orange zest and kirsch aromas developing with aeration. More flamboyant than its peers. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, fleshy and ripe with a touch of viscosity towards the finish. Certainly one of the most lavish Grand Crus in 2016 and utterly delicious. Tasted blind at the 2016 Burgfest tasting. Drinking range: 2022 - 2050 Rating: 94 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Oct 2019)

(from 55+ year old vines). Once again the wood treatment is worthy of mentioning though it stops short of overshadowing the high-toned, ripe and ultra-fresh aromas of various red berries, underbrush and truffle hints. The refined and highly energetic middle weight plus flavors possess a polished mouthfeel thanks primarily to the fine-grained tannins shaping the compact, tightly wound and built-to-age finish that flashes more than a touch of youthful austerity. This sneaky long effort will require at least a few years of bottle age as it’s very tight today. Drinking range: 2028 - Rating: 91-94 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2018)

(the only cru with normal production in 2016: 39 hectoliters per hectare): Bright, dark red. Inviting ripe scents of cherry, spices and earth; much more relaxed than the Feusselottes. Then quite suave and refined on the palate, offering excellent breadth but no weightiness to its flavors of red cherry, red berries, saline minerality and licorice. Still a bit youthfully imploded but all in finesse. The tannins spread out to dust the palate, with the finishing fruit and mineral flavors stimulating the taste buds. Aged in 70% new oak from four different coopers. Rating: 91-94 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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