2013 Vosne-Romanée, Les Beaux Monts, 1er Cru, Domaine Jean Grivot, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - at best (Drink 2017 - 2032)
Neal Martin
92/100
Product: 20131362798

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2013 Vosne-Romanée, Les Beaux Monts, 1er Cru, Domaine Jean Grivot, Burgundy

Description

Very dense purple with a scintillating, heady bouquet or fully ripe fruit, suggestive of a great vintage. Immense density of flavour, yet the thread of acidity keeps it dancing across the palate. Magical persistence. 
Jasper Morris, MW - Wine Buyer

A late cycle all the way though, in 2013 Etienne started picking from 5th October. After conferring with his aunt Jacqueline Jayer, he noted that 2013 shares the same harvest dates as 1978 and also that in both vintages there were very few pips in the grapes and they were fully ripe. Low sugar levels, ripe skins and good acidity should lead to fine wines with excellent keeping qualities.

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2013
Maturity Ready - at best (2017 - 2032)
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine Jean Grivot

Critics reviews

Neal Martin 92/100
Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting in Beaune, the 2013 Vosne-Romane 1er Cru Les Beaux Monts has a rather leafy bouquet, perhaps some stem addition here, nicely defined with bay leaf and thyme. It seems to grow in stature in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin, moderate acidity but it has clearly shut down towards the finish and feels static. There is a very impressive wine here, however it will need 4-5 years before it entertains the idea of drinkability.
Neal Martin, Vinous.com (Nov 2016)

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Domaine Jean Grivot

Jean Grivot took over from his father, Gaston, in 1955. He handed the domaine on to his son Étienne – married to Marielle Bize from Savigny – in the early 1980s. When Étienne took over, the house style was for gentle, graceful wines, perhaps a little weak in lesser vintages. Étienne then found his own voice, making a range of increasingly fine wines. From the mid-2000s onwards, he reduced yields and fine-tuned work in the vineyard and cellar. His children, Mathilde and Hubert, who made their first vintage with Étienne in 2010, took the reins fully in 2017.
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