2020 | Jean Grivot | Nuits Saint Georges aux Lavieres

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Red Wine: 2020 | Jean Grivot | Nuits Saint Georges aux Lavieres

Ripe red cherry and gentle woodsmoke on the nose are subsumed into a wonderfully fresh, bright nose. The palate is juicy, elegant, sculptured and precise. Testament to this domaine’s exacting and meticulous approach. The finish is fine, fresh, pure, balanced and vivid.

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Producer: Jean Grivot

Ratings: D | 93 BH | 92

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Ripe red cherry and gentle woodsmoke on the nose are subsumed into a wonderfully fresh, bright nose. The palate is juicy, elegant, sculptured and precise. Testament to this domaine’s exacting and meticulous approach. The finish is fine, fresh, pure, balanced and vivid.

Reviews:

• Decanter: This 0.62ha parcel on the fractured limestone ‘roofing tiles’ (lavires) was planted in 1964, next to Comte Liger-Belair. The result in 2020 was more dark fruit than bright, yet it is not lacking a mineral edge nor a gentle floral character. The impression on the palate is bigger in general, with more tannin and grip than either of the other village-level wines from Nuits. Substantial and satisfying finish.

• Burghound: There is just enough reduction present to partially blur the nuance on the ripe red and dark berry fruit aromas. There is equally good freshness to the even sleeker and brighter middle weight flavors that possess a velvet-textured mid-palate while exhibiting a saliva-inducing, persistent and well-balanced finale. This excellent effort just makes on feel like drinking it. In sum, this is a very good Nuits villages.

Producer Information

Domaine Jean Grivot is an estate in the Cte d’Or of Burgundy known for its deep, aromatic Pinot Noir wines with bright red fruit characteristics. The domaine only makes wines from its own vineyards. Grivot owns around 15 hectares (37 acres) of land across Vosne-Romane and Nuits-Saint-Georges, including plots in Echzeaux, Richebourg and a sizeable 1.9-ha (4.6-acre) parcel in the legendary Clos de Vougeot vineyard. Everything is planted to Pinot Noir, except for a few rows of Chardonnay, which goes into the Bourgogne Blanc. All of Grivot’s vineyards are planted to high densities to to encourage competition between the vines, which helps to lower yields. This is further lowered by the use of green harvests, which reduce crop size in favour of quality. The vines are all 40 years or older. In the winery, the bunches are 95 percent destalked and then undergo four to six days of cold maceration before fermentation in stainless steel. Grivot’s wines are generally matured in oak barrels for 18 months with varying proportions of new oak: around 25 percent for village wines, up to 60 percent for premier cru and as much as 70 percent for grand crus. Wines are bottled without fining or filtration in accordance with lunar movements and atmospheric pressure. The Grivot family originated from the Jura region and were growing vines as early as the mid 17th Century. Just before the French Revolution, the family moved to Vosne-Romane. The estate proper was developed in the early 1900s by Gaston Grivot, who sold his lesser plots to buy the Clos de Vougeot parcel in 1919. Domaine Jean Grivot became one of the first Burgundy domaines to bottle and sell its own wines.