94 points, James Suckling
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About the Wine
The Mongeard-Mugneret Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Plateaux comes from 1.75 acres of 45-year-old Pinot Noir vines planted on argillo-calcareous soils from the Middle Jurassic period. Fully destemmed and matured in 30–40% new oak barrels, the wine is deep, structured, and powerful, with complex aromas of black currant, cherry, truffle, and subtle game. Its firm tannins and rich body make it ideal for aging, offering a classic expression of this bold and age-worthy appellation.
Critic Reviews
94 points, James Suckling
"The wood spices are a bit pronounced at the moment, but there is no shortage of minerality, depth and nuanced complexity on the nose, which shows fine white pepper. spices, bergamot, red berries, orange rind and stones. Structured for a pinot, but polished and quite elegant for a warm year, with extraction giving an ethereal quality to the red berry fruit that flows toward a lengthy finish. Mossy forest floor and subtle sweet spice flavors at the end make it quite captivating. Give it three more years to settle and develop."
About The Winery
The Mongeard family arrived in Vosne-Romanée in the eighteenth century, with records showing a Mongeard working as vigneron for Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in 1786. In 1945, Jean Mongeard, whose mother was a Mugneret, found himself making wine at the age of 16 in the place of his father who had died years earlier. The entire 1945 crop was purchased by Baron le Roy, Marquis d'Angerville, and Henri Gouges. Gouges instructed the young Mongeard to personally bottle the wines, rather than sell in barrel. In 1975, Vincent Mongeard, Jean's son, began working alongside his father and became responsible for viticulture and vinification of the domaine's wines. He persuaded his father to return to the traditional method of bottling, without filtration, filtering only with certain vintages. Jean Mongeard retired in 1995, and Vincent assumed complete leadership of the domaine. Today, Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret covers a total area of more than 75 acres, split among 35 appellations. The varied range of climats in which the Mongeards own vineyards results, naturally, in wines of great diversity.
