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RUCHOTTES CHAMBERTIN

2020 Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg

EN PRIMEUR
Pinot NoirRedFrance,BurgundyCôte d'OrCôte de NuitsGevrey ChambertinGrand Cru 13.5%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 - 2050L&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)

(from 55+ year old vines). This is also very ripe though not so much that it’s roasted or flat on the aromas of black cherry liqueur that are laced with notes of the sauvage, earth and whiffs of spice and underbrush. The caressing but impressively intense larger-scaled yet refined flavors that exude plenty of minerality on the firm, raspy, mouth coating and mildly warm finale. This too is going to require extended patience. Drinking range: 2037 - Rating: 91-94 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2022)

I love this vineyard, but the sad news is that he old vines are struggling and the young vines dying off. Just 23 hl/ha and no whole bunches, though the domaine has experimented with them here previously. A deep purple once again, explosively heady, concentrated sweet raspberry juice, some floral aspects, but the balance is just a fraction off. I like the finish more, though there is a drier patch as if there had been some whole clusters employed. Tasted: November 2021 Rating: 92-95 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Jan 2022)

The 2020 Ruchottes-Chambertin Grand Cru has a crystalline bouquet that articulates the limestone terroir with style. You can smell the vineyard in this wine, crushed rock percolating through the dark berry fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with vibrant red fruit mixed with spice and sous-bois, quite powerful yet somehow strict, almost to the point of attenuation, towards the finish. Perhaps this year, their crown jewel is surpassed by their Clos de Vougeot, which is not unprecedented. Drinking range: 2028 - 2060 Rating: 93-95 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Dec 2021)

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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