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The very precocious springtime was a sign for a September harvest but the whims of the summer period prevailed over calculation.
First, on June 28th, the hailstorm which damaged the vineyards in Pommard and Volnay tempered our enthusiasm as it hit our vines from Nuits-Saint-Georges to Chambolle-Musigny.
The wet and chilly weather of August considerably slowed down the maturation process.
In September, a surprise guest called Drosophila Su...
Wine Description
The Story
This was the first parcel purchased by Georges Mugneret in 1953 when he was a medical student. He had been determined to buy a parcel of Clos Vougeot ever since that of his grandfather had been sold, and had in his private cellar some 1929 Clos Vougeot - the year of his birth - coming from that old parcel. Marvelous!
The soil is pebbly and gravelly, with very low clay content, allowing the vines to grow deep roots easily.
Wine Information
The garnet colour is clear.
The nose is complex and offers notes of flowers and fruits combined with woody scents.
The mouth is ample, rich and silky. It shows an outstanding balance as well as a remarkable aftertaste.
This wine is a compromise between the power and finesse of Ruchottes-Chambertin and the elegance of Echezeaux, but it has the greatest ageing potential among these three Grands Crus.
Vintage 2014
The 2014 vintage in Burgundy was a very complicated one, although less so than those in 2013, 2012 and 2011, which featured dramatic crop shortages due to shatter, bad fruit sets and hailstorms.
In 2014, there were two problems which resulted in crop loss: hail in the Côte de Beaune, especially inMeursault; and poor flowering in some of the hillside vineyards of Puligny and Meursault.
The winter temperatures were above average with only ...