2020 | Jean Grivot | Nuits Saint Georges les Roncieres

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Red Wine: 2020 | Jean Grivot | Nuits Saint Georges les Roncieres

The 2020 Nuits Saint-Georges Roncire 1er Cru has a fragrant bouquet with open-knit red berry fruit, briary and light ferrous scents in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, slightly grainy in texture, quite mineral drive with a touch of allspice and clove on the finish.

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Producer: Jean Grivot

Ratings: D | 94 BH | 94

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

The 2020 Nuits Saint-Georges Roncire 1er Cru has a fragrant bouquet with open-knit red berry fruit, briary and light ferrous scents in the background. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red fruit, slightly grainy in texture, quite mineral drive with a touch of allspice and clove on the finish.

Reviews:

• Decanter: Dense black plum and blackberry fruit, with the characteristic garrigue aroma of wild herbs. There is still a good impression of freshness on the palate and fairly grippy tannins. Well-balanced and typical of the village. The vines in this half-hectare parcel south of the village are more than 60 years of age. The thin white marl soils delivered super-ripe grapes in 2020. Grivot destemmed them and extracted gently.

• Burghound: Elegant, pure and airy aromas speak of the essence of plum, dark raspberry and subtle spice and earth wisps. The equally elegant and refined medium weight flavors are at once sleek and detailed while displaying a gorgeous mouthfeel on the impressively lengthy finish. Like the Chaumes, this is unusually good.

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.