Domaine Gerard Mugneret

I decided to become a vigneron in order to have freedom in my professional life. Working for the family domaine was also an opportunity to preserve what my great grandfather René and my father Gérard created. Finally, I wanted to do something with my hands. This is how, in 2005, I took over from my father, with the intention of carrying on the family tradition. Then, a transition took place. I progressively became absorbed in all facets of thi...

In order to adapt to warmer and drier summers, and Nature’s increasing unpredictability, I chose to limit yields to preserve the vines’ durability and to be able to harvest earlier with enough concentration, balance and fresher aromatics. The proportions of whole cluster inclusion also increased (now from 40 to 100%). As explained earlier, I believe whole cluster inclusion is essential in warm vintages.

During vinification and ageing the go...

To control is to put into place techniques and ways of creating a framework (a rather large one) in order to minimize the risk of accident. Nevertheless, zero risk does not exist, and risk must be integrated into the domaine’s management. Mastery is cultivated daily, with each experience, based on knowledge, observations, exchanges, rigor, successes and failures… reassessments that are, when possible, calm and collected.

Letting go is accep...