RUCHOTTES CHAMBERTIN
2016 Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg
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)
The 2016 Ruchottes Chambertin Grand Cru was not affected by frost and was cropped at 38 to 40 hectoliters per hectare. This was matured in 70% new oak. It has a very intense bouquet with ample red berry fruit, rose petals and cold wet stone aromas, almost slate-like. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, lively and linear, fresh and crisp, not the most complex Ruchottes-Chambertin in recent years but demonstrating very fine persistence, and you can feel the mineralité tingling on the tongue after the wine has departed. This year, maybe it is not the main draw from Mugneret-Gibourg. Drinking range: 2022 - 2040 Rating: 92-94 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Dec 2017)
The aroma is ‘in the air’. It is fine and silky and very refined. Such purity. This year the fruit is sweet, fresh and vivid. Excellent intensity and focus and then on the finish is is very, very long and tight and saline.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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