2021 Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg Echezeaux Grand Cru [D95][V92-94]

Producer: Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg 
Region: Echezeaux, Cote de Nuits, Burgundy, France 
Varietal: Pinot Noir 
Year: 2021 

Decanter, 95 Points 

"The domaine lost 90% of their production in the lieu-dit Rouges du Bas, but 'only' 55% in Quartier de Nuits. The remaining wine is spectacularly delicious, with ripe, concentrated blackberry fruit, with flashes of fresh flowers and earth. The flavours are enlivened by crisp acidity and firm tannins that carry the wine to a lingering finish. One quarter of the grapes are fermented as whole clusters (the only wine in the cellar so treated), and the wine is ageing in cask (60% new, from four different coopers) to deliver this wine of dizzying telluric force." 

Vinous 92-94 Points 

"The 2021 Echezeaux Grand Cru, which contains no whole cluster this year, has a clean and precise bouquet, dark berry fruit mixed with peony and subtle flinty aromas.  The palate is very harmonious with kirsch and orange zest on the entry, almost sorbet-fresh with saturated tannins.  The finish is quite linear yet with a slightly confit aftertaste.  Delicious." 

Alcohol: 13.5% 

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