Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret Echezeaux La Grande Complication 2015 (750ml)

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Producer	Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret
Country	France
Region	Burgundy
Subregion	Cote de Nuits
Varietal	Pinot Noir
Vintage	2015
Sku	00242
Size	750ml

 

BH

92-94

Just like the precision and know-how of the best watchmakers, each bouquet from our Grande Complication is expressed with purity and authenticity. First, the wild berries - intense black currant and lively raspberry - reveal all the splendor of this selection of grapes. Then, the subtleness of the aromas comes out as sweet, spicy notes. Then there’s silence. Harmony, power, finesse, and purity blend in a precious and complex movement. The scale of the site is perfectly calibrated, and the grandeur of Pinot Noir is sublimating. La Grande Complication requires time to express itself with the emotions becoming more intense as this exceptional quest goes on.

The Mongeard family arrived in Vosne-Romanée in the eighteenth century, with records showing a Mongeard working as vigneron for Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in 1786. In 1945, Jean Mongeard, whose mother was a Mugneret, found himself making wine at the age of 16 in the place of his father who had died years earlier. The entire 1945 crop was purchased by Baron le Roy, Marquis d’Angerville, and Henri Gouges. Gouges instructed the young Mongeard to personally bottle the wines, rather than sell in barrel. In 1975, Vincent Mongeard, Jean’s son, began working alongside his father and became responsible for viticulture and vinification of the domaine’s wines. He persuaded his father to return to the traditional method of bottling, without filtration, filtering only with certain vintages. Jean Mongeard retired in 1995, and Vincent assumed complete leadership of the domaine. Today, Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret covers a total area of more than 75 acres, split among 35 appellations. The varied range of climats in which the Mongeards own vineyards results, naturally, in wines of great diversity.

Here too the wood treatment is not subtle though it does not dominate the very ripe plum, spice, earth, Asian spice and floral scents. I very much like the texture of the powerful, sappy and concentrated flavors that deliver outstanding length on the highly complex finale where the wood displayed by the nose resurfaces. The generous oak is a mild concern though my range implicitly assumes that it will eventually be absorbed over time.  Drink 2030+