Frederic Mugnier Nuits-Saint-Georges 'Clos des Fourches' 2023
$149.99 on 6+ bottles (use code 6saves5)
93 points WineHog - Allen Meadows
93 points WineHog - Allen Meadows
The Chambolle-Musigny Les Fuees 2023 is one of my favorites. Still affordable yet giving so much joy and complexity The nose offers perfumed fruit notes, sensual and hedonistic fruit. It has this refined coolness and good acidity for the vintage. It has the magic.
Don’t look for Clos des Fourches on your Burgundy crus map, you won’t find it. The name disappeared from the map at the end of the 19th century when the vineyard was renamed Clos de la Maréchale. We have chosen to revive it to designate the cuvée we produce some years from the youngest Clos de la Maréchale vines. At the time, the name ‘fourches’ evoked the ‘fourches patibulaires’, in other words the gallows from which criminals were hanged. It is understandable that some people preferred the name “La Maréchale” and its evocations of a world of operetta, dazzling, futile and festive.
Variety: Pinot Noir
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Vine Age: Planted in 1980.
- Terroir: Facing east, clay soil with oolithic limestone pebbles.
- Viticulture: Sustainable
- Vinification: 100% de-stemmed, 15-20 day ambient yeast fermentation in open wooden vats. Aged for 18 months in barrel (15% new oak). Racked twice. Transferred in April to stainless steel tanks to age for 3 additional months. Bottled in June-July. SO2 additions before fermentation and before bottling.
$154.99
Frederic Mugnier Nuits-Saint-Georges 'Clos des Fourches' 2023—
$154.99
Description
$149.99 on 6+ bottles (use code 6saves5)
93 points WineHog - Allen Meadows
93 points WineHog - Allen Meadows
The Chambolle-Musigny Les Fuees 2023 is one of my favorites. Still affordable yet giving so much joy and complexity The nose offers perfumed fruit notes, sensual and hedonistic fruit. It has this refined coolness and good acidity for the vintage. It has the magic.
Don’t look for Clos des Fourches on your Burgundy crus map, you won’t find it. The name disappeared from the map at the end of the 19th century when the vineyard was renamed Clos de la Maréchale. We have chosen to revive it to designate the cuvée we produce some years from the youngest Clos de la Maréchale vines. At the time, the name ‘fourches’ evoked the ‘fourches patibulaires’, in other words the gallows from which criminals were hanged. It is understandable that some people preferred the name “La Maréchale” and its evocations of a world of operetta, dazzling, futile and festive.
Variety: Pinot Noir
-
Vine Age: Planted in 1980.
- Terroir: Facing east, clay soil with oolithic limestone pebbles.
- Viticulture: Sustainable
- Vinification: 100% de-stemmed, 15-20 day ambient yeast fermentation in open wooden vats. Aged for 18 months in barrel (15% new oak). Racked twice. Transferred in April to stainless steel tanks to age for 3 additional months. Bottled in June-July. SO2 additions before fermentation and before bottling.
