2000 Ruchottes-Chambertin Grand Cru

Wine Details
Place of Origin

France

Ruchottes Chambertin

Burgundy

Color

Red

Grape/Blend

Pinot Noir

Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2018 - 2035

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This wine was tasted during La Paulée in NYC, 2009.

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The Mugneret sisters now carry out a systematic green harvest; Marie-Christine Mugneret told me that this technique was essential to producing grapes with good sugars and the potential for making concentrated wines in 2001. Marie-Christine emphasized that although the wines had been racked in September, they were still evolving, still putting on weight, in barrel. (A Peter Vezan selection, imported by North Berkeley Imports, Berkeley, CA; Vintner Select, Cincinnati, OH; Michael Skurnik Wines, Syosset, NY; and Import!, Madison, WI)

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The Mugneret sisters use a chemical spray that limits the fruit set, producing what Marie-Christine Mugneret describes as "a chemical couleur " The Mugnerets further control yields by green harvesting where it needed. The estate's 2000s are closer in style to the '99s than to the '98s, according to Marie-Christine, who added that grape sugars ranged from 11.8% in the village wine to as high as 13.1% in Clos Vougeot. The domain normally uses a commercial yeast strain but used wild yeasts in 1999, said Marie-Christine, resulting in very long fermentations, especially for the Echezeaux, "and a lot of sleepless nights for us." Still, I suspect that the indigenous yeasts were partly responsible for the high quality of this vintage chez Mugneret. The '99 Ruchottes-Chambertin is a knockout. (A Peter Vezan selection, imported by North Berkeley Imports, Berkeley, CA; Vintner Select, Cincinnati, OH; Michael Skurnik Wines, Syosset, NY; and The Stacole Co., Boca Raton, FL)