Magnificent Grand Echezeaux Grand Cru 2011 from the famous Mongeard-Mugneret estate in Vosne Romanée. In the family of the great red wines of Burgundy among the most famous, the Grands Echezeaux reaches here an incredible finesse, richness and complexity! Burgundy Grand Cru wine on sale on a unit sale.
Grand Scales Grand Cru 2011
Complex
Powerful
Mineral
Fruity
Woody
Produced on the commune of Flagey-Echézeaux, this grand red cru is one of Burgundy's most famous and noble wines. With a total area of more than 8 hectares, the Grands Echezeaux is only located on Flagey-Echézeaux.
A clear ruby dress pure, bright and deep, intense red, with many shades, from garnet to purple. Of course variations will take place during aging.
An incredibly complex nose: the palette is geared towards pepper and musk, fur, leather and spices, prune.
The persistence in the mouth is simply exceptional. Dazzlingly structured, it is solid, full-bodied, rich and always has a lot of harmony. A very classy wine, a dense texture and an aristocratic elegance.
Harvest entirely manual, oak casking aging of which. 100% new barrels! The Grands Echezeaux is one of the few great crus that allows the use of all new futs thanks to the richness and concentration of the wine.
Like most Burgundy Grand Crus, it will benefit from being opened after several years of guarding.
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Appellation
Grand CruType of Wine
StillWine Making
Oak casksGrape Variety
Pinot NoirHarvest
ManualBurgundy Region
Côte de NuitsVintage
2011Service
14 to 16 degrees
Red: its colour is ruby, shading towards the darker tones of magenta and purple. Its bouquet is redolent of animal, spice notes, underbrush, and prune, evolving with age towards musk, leather, fur and mushroom. When young, its aromas suggest rose, violet and fresh cherry. On the palate, there is a heightened attack and an agreeable balance between supple tannins and fully-rounded flavour. The dense texture and tight grain of these wines fully open after 4-5 years in the cellar.
Wines so powerful and full demand to be matched with dishes of the samecalibre. Virile, four-sided tannins cry out for roast lamb, rib steak, or joints of game. Autumn and winter dishes in the right setting match the profound and meaty personality of these great wines: braised beef or pork, for example, or any other good red meat. Fine, whole-milk, soft-centred cheeses will also do them proud.
Serving temperature: 15 to 16°C.
The wine-growing village of Flagey-Échezeaux lies in the plaine, so-called, between Vougeot and Vosne-Romanée in the Côte de Nuits. Facing east, the Grands-Échezeaux vines are a prolongation of Musigny following the North-South axis of the Côte, but more regular and less broken in their layout. At the bottom end, the Climat known as La Combe d’Orveau separates them from Musigny. The Échezeaux vineyards, for their part, divide the Clos de Vougeot vineyard from the Vosne-Romanée Premiers Crus vineyards.
Grands-Échezeaux and Échezeaux both date their AOC Grands Crus from July 31, 1937. Like the Clos de Vougeot (from which they are separated only by a wall), they were founded by the monks of the abbey of Cîteaux and date from the 12th and 13th centuries. Their name derives from chesaux, a word of Gallo-Roman origin meaning a group of dwellings, presumably referring to an ancient hamlet.
Belonging geologically to the Jurassic (175 million years BC), the GrandsÉchezeaux vineyards are fairly homogeneous and lie close to the upper part of the Clos de Vougeot. Gradient: 3-4%. Soil: clay-limestone overlying Bajocien limestone. Altitudes: 250 metres. The Échezeaux Climats have more diverse soils (largely bajocien marls with pebbly overlay). Altitudes vary from 230 to a little over 300 metres (13% gradient at mid-slope). Up-slope, the soil is deep (70-80 cm). Gravels, red alluvium, yellowish marl, etc., make up quite a complex mosaic.
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Domaine Mongeard Mugneret is located in the heart of the prestigious village of Vosne Romanée in the Côte de Nuits, and produces great names in prestigious wines and great vintages of Burgundy: Vosne Romanée, Richerbourg, Echezeaux, Grands Echezeaux, Clos Vougeot.
Vincent Mongeard is the heir to a long tradition and has an incredible know-how, making Domaine Mongeard Mugneret one of the most beautiful emblems of Burgundy wine throughout the world.
He is committed not only to maintaining and embellishing the family heritage, but also to enlarging it as soon as an opportunity arises, in order to expand the range of the Domaine.
The estate now covers around 30 hectares, spread over 35 appellations producing white Burgundy wines made from the Chardonnay grape variety, but also and mainly red wines made from the Pinot Noir grape variety in the best finages of the Côte.
The vineyard is located on mid-slopes, facing south-east on clay-limestone soils.
