2016 | Lucien Le Moine | Les Amoureuses Lucien Le Moine

Bright ruby-red. Very dark, rather masculine nose offers aromas of black raspberry, boysenberry and violet. Wonderfully dense, concentrated and pure but youthfully restrained, with its refined dark fruit and bitter chocolate flavors complicated by subtle saline minerality.

Reviews:

• Vinous: Bright ruby-red. Very dark, rather masculine nose offers aromas of black raspberry, boysenberry and violet. Wonderfully dense, concentrated and pure but youthfully restrained, with its refined dark fruit and bitter chocolate flavors complicated by subtle saline minerality. Superb sweetness here but still very primary. The wine's noble tannins spread out to saturate the palate without leaving any impression of weight. Offers brilliant potential but this wine will require extended aging.

• Burghound: Like several of the preceding wines, this is aromatically quite restrained though a bit of aeration eventually exposes a lovely range of spice elements on the lavender-inflected red and dark raspberry scents. The even more refined and certainly more mineral-driven medium weight flavors possess a caressing mouth feel before concluding in a lingering if slightly one-dimensional finish. While more depth will almost certainly develop with bottle age, it's not clear that this is going to match the best of the Vosne and Gevrey 1ers in that regard.

Producer Information

Lucien Le Moine is a small négociant house in Burgundy's Côte de Beaune region. Established in 1999, it produces Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from around the Côte d'Or, from village-level, premier cru and grand cru vineyards. Le Moine produces wine from several grand cru sites, including Bonnes-Mares, Le Montrachet, Echezeaux and Richebourg. As well as some of Burgundy's most famous premier cru sites such as Les Amoureuses. Vineyards that Le Moine recieve grapes from are among the most sought-after in Burgundy. Several village-level wines are also included in the portfolio, as well as generic Bourgogne Rouge and Blanc offerings. Constantly re-evaluating its sources, production at Lucien Le Moine fluctuates greatly and never exceeds 100 barrels or roughly 30,000 bottles. Limited cellar space means that some crus can consist of a single barrel and result in only 300 bottles. Lucien Le Moine is focused on the élevage period of winemaking. Wines are aged on their lees, and malolactic fermentation is put off as long as possible to produce softer wines with fewer sulphites. Depending on the vintage, battonage is used to maximize contact with the lees. Lucien Le Moine uses 100 percent new oak from the Jupilles forest in northwest of France. The wines are bottled directly from barrel with no blending, fining or filtering.

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