Domaine Mugneret-Gibourg
Until the summer of August 2009 there were two domaines, Mugneret-Gibourg and Dr Georges Mugneret. The former was created in 1933 following the marriage of André Mugneret, from an old Vosne Romanée family, and Jeanne Gibourg in 1928. Their son, Dr Georges Mugneret, whose principal profession was as an opthalmist, purchased further vineyards using a label in his own name. The Mugneret-Gibourg vines were looked after by sharecroppers, which remains the case today in the hands of Fabrice Vigot and Pascal Mugneret. The Dr Georges Mugneret vines are exploited directly. After Dr Georges early death in 1988 the domaine was run by his widow, Jacqueline and their daughter, Marie-Christine, joined by their other daughter Marie-Andrée in 1992 after she had completed her studies.
The sisters have not made any significant innovations in the cellar, beyond a sorting table and a pneumatic press. The grapes are destemmed, given a short cool maceration then left to ferment over the following 10-14 days the village wines receive 30% new wood, 40-45% for the premiers crus and around 70% for the grands crus. After the malolactic fermentation they wines are racked into another cellar for their second winter in wood, thence into small blending tanks and so into bottle. These tanks and the bottling are both done in the same underground cellar as the second year barrels, avoiding pumping or change in temperature.
BourgogneRouge0.85ha
Vosne Romanée 3.08ha
Nuits StGeorges 0.21ha
Nuits St Georges Les Chaignots 1.27ha
Nuits St Georges Les Vignes Rondes 0.27ha
Chambolle Musigny Les Feusselottes 0.46ha
Clos Vougeot 0.34ha
Echezeaux 1.24ha
Ruchottes Chambertin 0.64ha
However the Bourgogne Rouge, Nuits St Georges, Vosne Romanée and Echezeaux vineyards are farmed on share-cropping agreements so the domaine does not receive all the fruit. There are two separate sharecroppers, Fabrice Vigot and Pascal Mugneret, both of whom look after the vineyards to a high standard.
Vosne Romanée
A blend from half a dozen different lieux-dits of which the most significant in volume are La Colombière, outside the domaine’s back door, and Champs Boudin just below. This is a fragrant, seductive, typical village Vosne.
Nuits St Georges Les Chaignots
This wine shows the elegance and harmony of Vosne Romanée on top of a solid base of Nuits St Georges. It has a core of minerality from its hillside position too.
Echezeaux
From two complementary plots, les Rouges du Bas near the top of the slope offering minerality and les Quartiers de Nuits providing fruit weight and a coating of velvet. Though the two plots are looked after by different sharecroppers, they are picked on the same day so that they can be vinified together.
Ruchottes Chambertin
Purchased in 1977 with the help of Charles Rousseau[1]. Half of the holding was replanted in 2000, so from 2002-06 it was declassified into village Gevrey and in 2007 (and probably the next few years) into Gevrey-Chambertin 1er cru, so as not to dilute the old vine portion which has continued to be made.
The sisters have not made any significant innovations in the cellar, beyond a sorting table and a pneumatic press. The grapes are destemmed, given a short cool maceration then left to ferment over the following 10-14 days the village wines receive 30% new wood, 40-45% for the premiers crus and around 70% for the grands crus. After the malolactic fermentation they wines are racked into another cellar for their second winter in wood, thence into small blending tanks and so into bottle. These tanks and the bottling are both done in the same underground cellar as the second year barrels, avoiding pumping or change in temperature.
BourgogneRouge0.85ha
Vosne Romanée 3.08ha
Nuits StGeorges 0.21ha
Nuits St Georges Les Chaignots 1.27ha
Nuits St Georges Les Vignes Rondes 0.27ha
Chambolle Musigny Les Feusselottes 0.46ha
Clos Vougeot 0.34ha
Echezeaux 1.24ha
Ruchottes Chambertin 0.64ha
However the Bourgogne Rouge, Nuits St Georges, Vosne Romanée and Echezeaux vineyards are farmed on share-cropping agreements so the domaine does not receive all the fruit. There are two separate sharecroppers, Fabrice Vigot and Pascal Mugneret, both of whom look after the vineyards to a high standard.
Vosne Romanée
A blend from half a dozen different lieux-dits of which the most significant in volume are La Colombière, outside the domaine’s back door, and Champs Boudin just below. This is a fragrant, seductive, typical village Vosne.
Nuits St Georges Les Chaignots
This wine shows the elegance and harmony of Vosne Romanée on top of a solid base of Nuits St Georges. It has a core of minerality from its hillside position too.
Echezeaux
From two complementary plots, les Rouges du Bas near the top of the slope offering minerality and les Quartiers de Nuits providing fruit weight and a coating of velvet. Though the two plots are looked after by different sharecroppers, they are picked on the same day so that they can be vinified together.
Ruchottes Chambertin
Purchased in 1977 with the help of Charles Rousseau[1]. Half of the holding was replanted in 2000, so from 2002-06 it was declassified into village Gevrey and in 2007 (and probably the next few years) into Gevrey-Chambertin 1er cru, so as not to dilute the old vine portion which has continued to be made.
[1]Apparently he bought both the Clos des Ruchottes and the section below from the previous owner but was scolded by his wife who said he already had quite enough vineyards. So he kept the Clos and sold the remainder on to Georges Mugneret and Michel Bonnefond, whose part is looked after by the Roumiers.
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