Domain Mugneret Gibourg Ruchottes Chambertin 2015
The 2015 Domaine Mugneret Gibourg Ruchottes-Chambertin Grand Cru is a red Burgundy wine from the Gevrey-Chambertin appellation and the Ruchottes-Chambertin parcel. Made exclusively from Pinot Noir, it holds the Grand Cru de Bourgogne classification. The Wine Advocate awards it 95+ points and recommends drinking from 2025 to 2060. The review describes a broad, powerful, and concentrated wine, structured around wild fruits, raw cacao, and coniferous underbrush notes, supported by juicy acidity.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Bottle (75cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Gevrey Chambertin
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Mugneret Gibourg
- Parcelle / Cru
- Ruchottes-Chambertin
- Millésime
- 2015
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Pinot Noir
Domaine Mugneret Gibourg
Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg is a family-run estate in Vosne-Romanée, in the Côte de Nuits. Formed from the merger of the Mugneret-Gibourg and Georges Mugneret estates in 2009, it is run by sisters Marie-Christine Teillaud-Mugneret and Marie-Andrée Nauleau-Mugneret, who cultivate just over 8 hectares spread across nine appellations.
- Owner
- Marie-Christine Teillaud-Mugneret et Marie-Andrée Nauleau-Mugneret
- Maître de chais
- Marie-Christine Teillaud-Mugneret et Marie-Andrée Nauleau-Mugneret
- Surface (ha)
- 8.00 ha
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- entre 20 000 et 30 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
The Mugneret family settled in Vosne-Romanée in 1930. Jeanne Gibourg and André Mugneret, who married in 1928, founded Domaine Mugneret-Gibourg in 1933. There, they produced red Burgundies, including Vosne-Romanée, Nuits-Saint-Georges and Échezeaux. Their only son, Georges Mugneret, an ophthalmologist in Dijon, continued the family’s wine-making business alongside his medical practice. He gradually expanded the vineyard through acquisitions at Clos Vougeot in 1953, in Nuits-Saint-Georges in 1971, in Ruchottes-Chambertin in 1977, and then at Les Vignes Rondes and Les Feusselottes in the 1980s. Following his death in 1988, his wife Jacqueline ensured the estate’s continuity alongside their daughter Marie-Christine, who was soon joined by Marie-Andrée after she completed her studies in oenology at the University of Burgundy. In 2009, Domaines Mugneret-Gibourg and Georges Mugneret merged under the name Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg. The estate is now run by Marie-Christine and Marie-Andrée, whilst Lucie and Marion, their respective eldest daughters, joined the business in 2017 and 2018. The two sisters oversee the winemaking process directly, from the hand-harvesting to the blending and bottling at the estate.
Ruchottes-Chambertin
Ruchottes-Chambertin is a physically delimited climat and a Grand Cru appellation in the commune of Gevrey-Chambertin, comprising the lieux-dits Ruchottes du Bas and Ruchottes du Dessus. Situated on the slope above the piedmont and higher up than the Chambertin vineyard, it benefits from an eastward exposure and a moderate slope. Its shallow, stony, and highly well-draining soils rest on fractured Bathonian limestones.
- Vineyard commune
- Gevrey-Chambertin
- Origin of the vineyard name
- The toponym "Ruchottes", related to "roche" (rock), evokes the abundance of stones and dry-stone walls ("murgers") characteristic of the site.
- Exposure
- eastward
- Altitude
- 290–310 m
- Slope
- moderate
- Soil
- Skeletal soils, generally carbonated, very thin and very stony, rich in clay and red silts.
- Subsoil and geology
- Substrate of frost-weathered and fractured Bathonian limestones, belonging to Middle Jurassic formations.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 0.640000 ha
- Year the vineyard was acquired
- 1977
- Vineyard holding status
- Estate owner and operator of a parcel located in Ruchottes du Bas
- Indicative vine age
- Parcel consisting of vines planted in 1950 and one half replanted in 2000.
Histoire de la parcelle
The name "Ruchottes" appears in the archives of Gevrey in the 16th century, and the site appears to have already been planted with vines at that time. Its reputation seems to have been established by the 18th century; in 1855, Jules Lavalle classified the upper part as a first cuvée and the lower part as a second cuvée. A judgment by the Dijon court in 1931 recognized the appellation of origin and its boundaries, and the AOC Ruchottes-Chambertin was officially recognized on July 31, 1937.
