Domaine Gérard Mugneret Vosne Romanee Les Suchots 1999 Bouteille (75cl)
The 1999 Domaine Gérard Mugneret Vosne-Romanée Les Suchots is a Premier Cru red Burgundy wine made from 100% Pinot Noir. It comes from the Les Suchots climat in the Vosne-Romanée appellation, where the estate farms 37.22 ares in the upper part of the lieu-dit traditionally known as Grands Suchots. This plot features a soil gradient, being stonier and more well-draining at the top of the slope, and deeper towards the bottom. The 1999 vintage is a classic expression of this Vosne-Romanée Premier Cru crafted by Gérard Mugneret.
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
- Vosne Romanée
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Gérard Mugneret
- Parcelle / Cru
- Les Suchots
- Millésime
- 1999
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Pinot Noir
Domaine Gérard Mugneret
The Gérard Mugneret estate is a family-run business based in Vosne-Romanée, in the Côte de Nuits. It cultivates around 7 hectares spread across several appellations, with a significant proportion of the vineyard located in Vosne-Romanée. Pascal Mugneret now runs the estate and oversees the winemaking.
- Owner
- Pascal Mugneret
- Maître de chais
- Pascal Mugneret
- Surface (ha)
- 7.00 ha
Histoire du domaine
The estate’s origins date back to Eugène Mugneret, who acquired the first plots whilst working as a timber merchant. His son René was the first in the family to devote himself professionally to viticulture and developed the estate’s client base. Gérard Mugneret, born in 1948, succeeded him after his brother Jean had chosen a career in the Air Force. He produced his first wines under his own name in 1973, whilst part of the production continued to bear the René Mugneret label until 1986. The winery equipment was modernised in the early 1990s, notably with the introduction of a pneumatic press. The vineyard then expanded through the acquisition of plots such as Les Gravains in Savigny-lès-Beaune and Les Charmes in Chambolle-Musigny. After a career in industry, Pascal Mugneret returned to the estate in 2004 and produced his first vintages there in 2005. Under his leadership, herbicides were phased out in 2005, synthetic products in 2010, and practices inspired by biodynamics were introduced from 2011 onwards. Pascal Mugneret is now at the helm of EARL Gérard Mugneret and oversees both vineyard management and winemaking.
Les Suchots
Les Suchots is a climat of Vosne-Romanée officially recognized among the designations that can accompany the Premier Cru mention. It is located to the north of Romanée-Saint-Vivant and Richebourg, bordering Les Échezeaux, in a sector of the hillside exposed mainly to the east, locally to the south-east. Descriptions dedicated to the climat point to clay-limestone or reddish-brown, stony soils resting on limestone and marly materials; Oligocene conglomeratic deposits are also observed. A talweg and a soil thickness gradient introduce a certain internal heterogeneity.
- Vineyard commune
- Vosne-Romanée
- Origin of the vineyard name
- Two etymologies are documented: "Suchot" may derive from "souche" (vine stock), in reference to land that was cleared and grubbed, or be related to "suc/suquet", designating a hill or steep slope.
- Exposure
- East to south-east
- Soil
- Clay-limestone, stony soils, locally described as reddish-brown; their thickness generally increases from the top to the bottom of the climat.
- Subsoil and geology
- Limestone and marly subsoil; documented presence of limestone rocks and salmon-colored clayey limestone conglomerates attributed to the Oligocene.
Le domaine dans cette parcelle
- Estate holding in the vineyard (ha)
- 0.372000 ha
- Vineyard holding status
- Farmed by the estate, land tenure unspecified
- Indicative vine age
- A professional source describes the parcel as planted predominantly with old vines then 75 years of age.
Histoire de la parcelle
Viticulture has been attested in Vosne-Romanée since the Middle Ages, notably under the influence of the Abbey of Saint-Vivant. The Vosne-Romanée AOC was recognized in 1936 and the list of its climats eligible for the Premier Cru mention, including Les Suchots, in 1943, based on 19th-century wine-growing classifications. The name preserves the possible memory of former clearing and grubbing, but a topographical origin meaning "hill" is also advocated.
