2012 Nuits-St Georges Rouge, Clos de la Maréchale, 1er Cru, Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier, Burgundy
- Red
- Dry
- Medium Bodied
- Pinot Noir
For laying down
- Neal Martin MW
- 90/100
Product: 20121049671
Description
Vibrant purple in colour, this is a wine of huge energy, with an atypical weight of fruit. Everything about the wine this year is exceptionally concentrated, including the tannic structure, so the 2012 Clos de la Maréchale will take a little while longer than usual to come round. The dark fruit energy however confirms that this is a wine to look out for.
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director
Jasper Morris MW, Burgundy Wine Director
Whereas the yield in Frédéric Mugnier’s Chambolle-Musigny vineyards (not released En Primeur) is only a little below normal, his pride and joy to the south, the Clos de la Maréchale, suffered far worse from a very poor flowering and some hail damage. It will have produced, at best, one third of a normal crop. We will have to console ourselves with the quality of the wine instead.
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2012
Alcohol % 13
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Domaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier
Critics reviews
Neal Martin MW 90/100
Tasted blind at Flint Wines 2007/2012 Nuits Saint-Georges tasting in London. The 2012 Nuits Saint-Georges 1er Cru Clos de la Marchale has a mixture of red and black fruit on the nose; it is missing a little delineation although there is good intensity. The palate is medium-bodied and rather funky. Fleshy red fruit here, moderate acidity and initially straight-laced, but what do you know? Returning after an hour, the wine certainly perks up and delivers the freshness it was initially missing. Don't be afraid to decant. Tasted November 2016.Neil Martin - 01/03/2017
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 Jacques-Frederic Mugnier
Domaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier is based at the Château de Chambolle-Musigny, which has been in the Mugnier family since 1863. Frédéric Mugnier – the fifth generation of the family on the property – took over in 1985. As of 2004, he has reclaimed the Nuits-St Georges Clos de la Maréchale vineyard, which had been on lease to Faiveley since 1950.
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