About the Wine
The Mongeard-Mugneret Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru Les Orveaux is produced from 2.7 acres of the appellation’s prized vineyards, planted with 25- to 52-year-old Pinot Noir vines on shallow alluvial soils over limestone. Hand-harvested and meticulously sorted, the wine is matured in 30–40% new oak barrels to balance finesse with depth. This Premier Cru showcases the seductive elegance and aromatic complexity characteristic of Vosne-Romanée.
The wonderful exposure enjoyed by the Vosne Romanée Premier
Cru Les Orveaux vineyard endows these wines with a deep ruby color and aromas of red fruits, black currants, and raspberries. Their robust and richly perfumed bouquet imbues them with a character that is at once silky and rustic. Their freshness and mellowness, combined with a certain sensuous vinosity, renders them a worthy rival to other Vosne-Romanée premier crus. This is a supremely well-balanced wine.
Cru Les Orveaux vineyard endows these wines with a deep ruby color and aromas of red fruits, black currants, and raspberries. Their robust and richly perfumed bouquet imbues them with a character that is at once silky and rustic. Their freshness and mellowness, combined with a certain sensuous vinosity, renders them a worthy rival to other Vosne-Romanée premier crus. This is a supremely well-balanced wine.
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.
