Domain Jean Jacques Confuron Romanee Saint Vivant 2019 Magnum (150cl)
The 2019 Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron Romanée-Saint-Vivant is a red Burgundy wine from the Romanée-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru, in the commune of Vosne-Romanée in the Côte de Nuits. Crafted exclusively from Pinot Noir, it comes from the Romanée-Saint-Vivant climat, whose appellation area covers 9.40 hectares. This red Grand Cru appellation is distinguished by structured and harmonious wines traditionally crafted for long bottle aging.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Magnum (150cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Vosne Romanée
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron
- Parcelle / Cru
- Romanée-Saint-Vivant
- Millésime
- 2019
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Pinot Noir
Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron
Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron is a family-run estate based in Premeaux-Prissey, south of Nuits-Saint-Georges, in the Côte de Nuits. It cultivates around 8 hectares spread across several appellations, from Chambolle-Musigny to Nuits-Saint-Georges, with plots in Clos de Vougeot and Romanée-Saint-Vivant. The estate is now run by Sophie Meunier-Confuron and her son Louis Meunier, who is responsible for winemaking.
- Owner
- Famille Meunier (Sophie Meunier-Confuron et ses enfants)
- Maître de chais
- Louis Meunier
- Surface (ha)
- 8.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- environ 40 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The estate’s history is rooted in the traditions of the Confuron and Noëllat families, who have long been established in the Côte de Nuits. Jean-Jacques Confuron worked alongside his brother Christian until 1980, before establishing his own estate in the early 1980s. Following Jean-Jacques Confuron’s illness and subsequent death in 1983, his wife Andrée Noëllat and their daughter Sophie ensured the estate’s continued operation. Sophie Meunier-Confuron, who trained at the Beaune wine college, went on to work with her husband Alain Meunier. The estate’s current organisational structure, the SCEA du Domaine Jean-Jacques Confuron, was established in 1988. That same year, family-owned plots from the Noëllat inheritance were added to the estate, notably in Romanée-Saint-Vivant, Nuits-Saint-Georges Les Boudots and Vosne-Romanée. The vineyard has been managed using organic methods since the late 1980s or early 1990s, with some plots being worked by horse. Louis Meunier gradually took over responsibility for winemaking from 2020 onwards and is now co-manager of the company alongside Sophie Meunier-Confuron. The available legal documents also indicate a transfer of shares from Alain and Sophie Meunier to their three children.
Romanée-Saint-Vivant
Romanée-Saint-Vivant is a physically demarcated climat of Vosne-Romanée corresponding to a Grand Cru appellation reserved for red wines. Located on a gentle piedmont plateau overlooking the village, between 247 and 260 meters, it slopes gently eastward. Its shallow, clayey, carbonate-rich soils with high iron oxide content cover a well-draining limestone subsoil, with a conglomeratic formation in its eastern part.
- Vineyard commune
- Vosne-Romanée
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The name "Romanée de Saint-Vivant" is recorded in 1765. "Romanée" was borrowed from a small neighboring parcel, while "Saint-Vivant" recalls the Cluniac monastery that historically owned the vineyard.
- Exposure
- eastward
- Altitude
- 247–260 m
- Slope
- gentle slope on a slight plateau
- Soil
- Slightly developed, carbonated, and shallow soils, heavily clayey, rich in iron oxides; colluvium of scree, clays, and silts.
- Subsoil and geology
- Bajocian entroquitic limestones; to the east, a conglomerate of limestone blocks in a salmon-pink marly matrix.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 0.500000 ha
- Vineyard holding status
- owner
- Indicative vine age
- Block planted in the mid-1920s, generally dated around 1926-1929 according to professional sources.
Histoire de la parcelle
The Cluniac monastery of Saint-Vivant owned a wine estate in Vosne as early as the Middle Ages, consisting of clos precisely listed in 1512. The current climat brings together the former Cloux des Neuf Journaux, des Quatre Journaux, and du Moytant. Confiscated as ecclesiastical property during the French Revolution, it was acquired by the Marey-Monge family, who kept it until 1898 before it was partially divided. Already placed in the top categories of the 1816, 1855, and 1860 classifications, Romanée-Saint-Vivant was recognized as an appellation d'origine contrôlée on September 11, 1936.
