2020 | Jean Grivot | Vosne Romanee Les Beaux Monts

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Red Wine: 2020 | Jean Grivot | Vosne Romanee Les Beaux Monts

Just a hint of flinty, smoky reduction plays alongside the ripe red cherry on the nose. The palate is poised, balanced and its chief characteristic is fine freshness combined with elegant, fine tannins. Notions of liquorice and pepper add extra layers and nuance to the fruit. The body is dense, posed, elegant and the finish is long and exquisite.

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Producer: Jean Grivot

Ratings: TA | 95 BH | 95

Vintage: 2020

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.4%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Just a hint of flinty, smoky reduction plays alongside the ripe red cherry on the nose. The palate is poised, balanced and its chief characteristic is fine freshness combined with elegant, fine tannins. Notions of liquorice and pepper add extra layers and nuance to the fruit. The body is dense, posed, elegant and the finish is long and exquisite.

Reviews:

• Tim Atkin: Etienne Grivot declared that this is what he likes in a Pinot Noir, and I wouldn’t disagree with him. There’s finesse yet concentration, succulent fruit contrasted by lively spice and age-worthy tannins matched by mouth-watering acidity. It’s all potential in the glass, yet its perfumed charm is considerable even now.

• Burghound: Hints of mineral style reduction are present on the elegant, pure and airy aromas of black pinot fruit, plum, anise and jasmine tea. The racy, intense and beautifully precise medium weight flavors brim with minerality on the gorgeously textured, stylish and classy finish that is presently youthfully austere. This is potentially terrific and should age gracefully.

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.