Domain Rouget Cros Parantoux 2016 Magnum (150cl)
The 2016 Domaine Rouget Cros Parantoux is a red Burgundy from the Vosne-Romanée appellation, classified as a Premier Cru. Produced by Domaine Rouget, it comes from the Cros Parantoux parcel and is crafted exclusively from Pinot Noir. This cuvée stems from a sector where the old vines were planted during the 1950s and 1960s. The 2016 vintage thus combines the identity of a Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru with the single-varietal expression of Pinot Noir.
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- Red
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Vosne Romanée
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Rouget
- Parcelle / Cru
- Cros Parantoux
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Pinot Noir
Domaine Rouget
The Emmanuel Rouget estate is based in Flagey-Échezeaux, in the Côte de Nuits. It cultivates plots located notably in Vosne-Romanée, Échezeaux, Nuits-Saint-Georges and Savigny-lès-Beaune, with a range extending from regional appellations to grands crus. Having been passed down from Henri Jayer to Emmanuel Rouget, the estate is now run by the Rouget family, with Nicolas in charge of the vineyards and Guillaume of the cellar.
- Owner
- Emmanuel Rouget (famille Rouget)
- Maître de chais
- Guillaume Rouget
- Surface (ha)
- 9.30 ha
Histoire du domaine
Originally trained as a tractor mechanic, Emmanuel Rouget joined Henri Jayer, to whom he is related, in 1976. He then worked in the latter’s vineyards and gradually learnt how to manage the vineyard and the winemaking process. At the same time, he worked as a sharecropper on family vineyards, notably in Échezeaux and Vosne-Romanée. In the mid-1980s, he set up his own estate and winery in Flagey-Échezeaux, and began marketing wines under his own name. From 1996 onwards, Henri Jayer gradually transferred his vineyards to him. When Henri Jayer retired in 2001, all of these vineyards, including the Vosne-Romanée Cros Parantoux Premier Cru, came under the control of Emmanuel Rouget. Nicolas Rouget officially joined the estate in 2008 and took charge of vineyard management. Guillaume Rouget, who trained in viticulture in Beaune, has been responsible for the cellar and winemaking since 2011.
Cros Parantoux
Cros Parantoux is a climat in the commune of Vosne-Romanée, officially classified as Premier Cru within the Vosne-Romanée AOC. Located at the top of the slope, above and bordering the Richebourg grand cru, it has an eastern exposure and falls within cadastral section AN. Institutional sources describe the soils of the appellation more generally as limestone mixed with clayey marls, without allowing a sufficiently precise structured pedological or geological composition to be attributed to Cros Parantoux alone.
- Vineyard commune
- Vosne-Romanée
- Exposure
- East
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 0.715000 ha
- Vineyard holding status
- Cultivator of vineyards belonging to the daughters of Henri Jayer
- Indicative vine age
- First plantings in 1953; plantings also reported during the 1950s and 1960s.
Histoire de la parcelle
After the Second World War, this difficult, rocky terrain, which was largely overgrown at the time, was brought back into cultivation by Henri Jayer under a sharecropping arrangement with Maria Noirot-Camuzet, with an agreement documented in 1950. Jayer subsequently acquired most of the climat over time and long vinified its grapes alongside those of Vosne-Romanée village. The 1978 vintage was the first Cros Parantoux that he marketed separately under his own name, marking a decisive milestone in the climat's international renown.
