2017 Nuits Saint-Georges Les Vignes Rondes 1er Cru

Mugneret-Gibourg is always one of the visits I anticipate the most. I have been visiting here for over 20 years and the sisters, Marie-Christine and Marie-Andrée are as friendly as they have always been. “We had a normal production around 29-30hl/ha on average," Marie-Christine told me in their newly renovated cellars. "The harvest began on 5 September and picked over five days. The weather was nice during harvest. All the wine are de-stemmed except for the Echézeaux. We had to add some stems in 2016 to make up for the small volume and it seemed to work, so we used the same percentage for subsequent vintages. We might include some stems in the future for other appellations, but not too much. The alcohol levels are between 13.8% and 14.3%. It was a new thing for us with higher levels of alcohol and I was a little scared finishing a couple of the fermentations that were a bit slow. But it taught us a lot and that helped us to vinify in 2019. The wines were racked at the beginning of July."