RUCHOTTES CHAMBERTIN
2020 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 |
Cool and firm. A sense of a wine on a march - to where? There's a little touch of sweetness, but the tannins are dry and play off it brilliantly. Firm and on the intellectual end of the spectrum. There's sharp definition despite the thickness of the material. Drinking range: 2035 - 2050 L&S (Nov 2021)
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An exotic personality. Cloaked in a hazy richness of purple aroma, beneath which there is austerity, cold line, tension, and vibration. A persistent, straight, and salty finish. Drinking range: 2030 - 2040 Rating: 95-96 World of Fine Wine Magazine (Apr 2022)
Vinous with soft – even sweet – tannins, the palate ladles on the mulberries and cherry preserves. This is smooth and decadent with a waterfall of refreshing acidity to clean up the light, mid-palate viscosity. Dense, textured and heady in perfume, this is almost ready to enjoy now but will be best down the road. Half of the vines here are about 70 years old and half are rather young. Drinking range: 2023 - 2042 Rating: 97 Christy Canterbury MW - TimAtkin.com (Feb 2022)
The 2020 Ruchottes-Chambertin Grand Cru is showing brilliantly, wafting from the glass with aromas of cherries, wild berries, peonies and exotic spices. Full-bodied, velvety and seamless, it's deep and complete, with a concentrated core of strikingly pure fruit, powdery tannins and a long, resonant finish. It's a beautifully complete wine from a parcel that sees the evening sun for a little longer than the adjacent holdings of Roumier and Rousseau higher up the slope. Rating: 95-97 William Kelley, The Wine Advocate (Jan 2022)
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.- For full delivery details see our Delivery page.
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