Domaine Lucien Le Moine Batard Montrachet 2009 Magnum
The 2009 Bâtard-Montrachet from Domaine Lucien Le Moine is a white Burgundy wine from the Puligny-Montrachet appellation, classified as a Burgundy Grand Cru. Made from 100% Chardonnay, it comes from the Bâtard-Montrachet plot. The Wine Advocate awards it 92-94/100 and recommends drinking from 2016 onwards. The publication describes an ample and powerful wine, whose intense fruit is accompanied by smoky nuances, burnt earth, and a saline expression, featuring an imposing finish.
La bouteille proposée
- Size
- Magnum (150cl)
- Packaging
- Loose
- Label Condition
- Perfect
- Fill Level
- Perfect
- Capsule Condition
- Perfect
Identité du vin
- Couleur
- White
- Pays
- France
- Région
- Bourgogne
- Appellation
- Puligny Montrachet
- Producteur / Domaine
- Domaine Lucien Le Moine
- Parcelle / Cru
- Bâtard-Montrachet (Puligny Montrachet)
- Millésime
- 2009
Cépage et assemblage
- Grape Variety
- 100% Chardonnay
Domaine Lucien Le Moine
Lucien Le Moine is a wine merchant and ageing house established in Beaune in 1999 by Mounir Saouma and Rotem Brakin. Each year, it selects wines from Premier Crus and Grands Crus in the Côte d’Or, which it ages and bottles in its Beaune cellar. The company does not own any vineyards of its own in Burgundy.
- Owner
- Mounir Saouma et Rotem Brakin
- Maître de chais
- Mounir Saouma
- Production (average bottles per vintage)
- jusqu'à 30 000 bouteilles/an
Histoire du domaine
Lucien Le Moine was founded in Beaune in 1999 by Mounir Saouma and Rotem Brakin. Mounir Saouma trained in viticulture and oenology following a period spent at a Trappist monastery, and subsequently worked at several estates in Burgundy, France and California. Rotem Brakin studied agriculture and wine, notably in Dijon, before joining forces with him. The company was conceived as a small wine merchant and ageing house specialising in the Premiers Crus and Grands Crus of the Côte d’Or. It purchases white wines after pressing and red wines after fermentation, then ages them until bottling. The selection of wines is updated each year depending on availability from partner winegrowers. Mounir Saouma is recognised as the house winemaker, whilst the couple manage the business directly. The capacity stated by the house is limited to 100 barrels, or a maximum of 30,000 bottles per year.
Bâtard-Montrachet (Puligny Montrachet)
Bâtard-Montrachet is both a Grand Cru appellation and a physically demarcated climat, shared between Puligny-Montrachet and Chassagne-Montrachet. It occupies the lower part of the slope, exposed mainly to the east and south-east, at around 240 to 250 metres of altitude. Its brown limestone soils are thicker and more clayey towards the foothill, with clay colluvium relatively poor in stones. The substrate consists mainly of platy limestones from the Middle Jurassic, attributed to the Callovian.
- Vineyard commune
- Puligny-Montrachet et Chassagne-Montrachet
- Exposure
- east to south-east, with a southern component
- Altitude
- 240–250 m
- Soil
- Relatively thick and clayey brown limestone soils; clay colluvium with few stones.
- Subsoil and geology
- Platy limestones from the Middle Jurassic, mainly Callovian.
Histoire de la parcelle
The "Bâtard" climat was already distinguished from Montrachet in the 18th century, although its wines were long assimilated with those of Montrachet. A 1921 judgment consecrated the use of the name "Bâtard-Montrachet" and the local hierarchy of grand crus. The AOC was recognized by the decree of 31 July 1937; its plot area was initially demarcated in 1939, then approved by the INAO in 1988 for Chassagne-Montrachet and in 1989 for Puligny-Montrachet.
