Mongeard-Mugneret

An Atherton Wine Imports Direct Domaine

The Mongeard family has been making wine in Burgundy since the 16th Century and Vincent Mongeard is the latest family member to run the Domaine. Vincent has continued the long tradition of meticulous vineyard management and a style of winemaking that produces elegant, long-lived wines.

The grapes are hand-harvested, de-stemmed and go through a 4-5 day cold maceration before natural yeasts initiate the primary fermentation. The wines complete fermentation in temperature-controlled vats over a period of 12-15 days and are subsequently gravity-fed into barrels. A varying percentage of new oak is used every year and all the oak is air-dried and slightly toasted. Vincent only racks once and tops off the barrels regularly to ensure a minimal exposure to oxygen. The wines complete their malolactic fermentations in barrel and age for 18-22 months before being bottled unfiltered.

Praise for Mongeard-Mugneret

“The Mongeard wines are on the oaky side yet with time in bottle they generally absorb most of it and become quite satisfying. And they have an uncanny ability to age well too. …reasonably good value as well.” – Burghound, Jan 2005

“This is clearly a source for excellent, sometimes stunning and exotic, red burgundy” – Robert Parker, Burgundy

“full, sturdy well-coloured wines, with plenty of concentration.” – Clive Coates, Cote D’Or

Vincent Mongeard on the 2006 Vintage

“we had basically no problems at all with rot. We began picking in the Côte de Beaune on September 22nd and then we attacked the Côte de Nuits the next day and we finally finished with the Hautes Côtes on the 5th and 6th of October. There was some triage work but that was to eliminate under ripe berries. Sugars were very good, in fact we had almost no chaptalization and interestingly, in many cases the lower level vineyards had higher sugar readings than did the higher ones. I don't know why. As per usual, we destemmed everything except the old vines Echézeaux and the Richebourg, where the percentage depends on the vintage. As to the vinification, I did a slightly lighter extraction but not much. There isn't a big difference between the two Côtes though I have a small preference for the Côte de Nuits. The wines are very pure and very terroir and while they feel like the 2000 vintage, I think they have much material than that vintage.” (Burghound, Jan 08)

Featured Wines

• Richebourg (Next to the DRC vines)
• Grands Echezeauz (40-55 year old vines)
• Echezeauz Vieilles Vignes (from vines planted in 1929
• Echezeauz
• Clos Vougeot
• Vosne "Petits Monts" (adjacent to Richebourg)
• Nuits "Boudots"
• Vosne "Orveaux"
• Beaune "Avaux"
• Nuits “Les Plateaux” (25-40 year old vines)
• Chambolle-Musigny (30 year old vines)
• Vosne Romanee
• Savigny "Narbontons"