2018 Mongeard Mugneret Bourgogne Pinot Noir

2018 Mongeard Mugneret Bourgogne Pinot Noir

2018 Mongeard Mugneret Bourgogne Pinot Noir; Burgundy, France

Winemaker Notes; Bourgogne Pinot Noir, also known as Bourgogne Rouge, has a fairly intense color, varying in intensity according to the vintage. It often has a violet tinge when young. This wine opens up early and offers a wide range of red berry aromas, sometimes developing animal hints when mature. The structure is supple owing to the moderate tannin content. Bourgogne Pinot Noir can be drunk young, when it will already reveal elegance and typicity.

Pinot Noir is the dominant red wine grape of Burgundy, now adopted (and extensively studied) in wine regions all over the world. The variety’s elusive charm has carried it to all manner of vineyards.These extend from western Germany (as Spätburgunder) and northern Italy to Chile, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the USA. California, Oregon and New Zealand are arguably the greatest centers for the grape outside its home territory. However great Pinot Noir is made in all of these territories.

Bourgogne Rouge wines are the still reds produced under the generic Bourgogne appellation. Created in 1937, it covers those Burgundy wines made from vineyards without a more location-specific title. Bourgogne Rouge wine can be produced from grapes grown in any one (or more) of 300 communes throughout Burgundy. Pinot Noir is by far and away the predominant grape used under the title. The less well-known red variety César is also allowed, but only in the Yonne department (covering Chablis and a host of outlying titles) in northwestern Burgundy.

Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret is a Burgundy estate with a long history of making fine Pinot Noir wines in Vosne-Romanée.The Mongeard family dates its origins in the commune back to 1620. In the 1920s, the marriage of Eugène Mongeard to Edmée   Mugneret brought together vineyards from both families, increasing the size of the domaine.