TN: Resolved: The Finest Village Red Burgundy Is...

… Mugneret-Gibourg Vosne-Romanée.

  • 2006 Domaine Georges Mugneret/Mugneret-Gibourg Vosne-Romanée - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Vosne-Romanée (1/30/2011)
    A stunner of a village wine, although a bit shut down at the moment. Perfumed dark cherries, a hint of woodsmoke, beef broth, blood orange, and dark spices that build to a long, complex finish. Lively, savory, and energetic. Medium-bodied, with fine underlying structure. (91 pts.)

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Discuss.

-Steve

People need to stop posting about this wine! lol

I’m not sure the issue could ever be 100% resolved, but that wine right there is a contender for sure.

Maybe not quite, but surely something in Vosne though…

2005 Rouget Vosne Romanee for mine…

I’m in love with Bachelet and Fourrier Gevrey-Chambertin… and Roumier Chambolle-Musigny… but this '06 just floored me. I can’t recall a more pleasurable village red Burg… excepting of course the '04 Leroy Vosne-Romanee :slight_smile:

Kind of like picking your favorite child, I know…

This would probably be my pick as well especially if reasonable pricing is a criteria. If you relax the pricing constraint, I would be very tempted to choose one of the Leroy portfolio such as Nuits Vignerondes.

This is a great wine, had a bottle last week in Boston.

What does this usually go for, the best I have seen is $50. Seems high for a village burg but it is gibourg so I am not sure. I just wish this could be had for around…say $30?

I thought it was Claude Dugat’s 2 barrels that he doesn’t commercialise (keeps for himself!) Cuvée Louise or similar from over 100yo vines… ;o)

Failing that I might stay in Gevrey with with Sylvie Esmonin’s VV, but Barthod’s 09 Chambolle is work of art too…

I’d certainly put this at the top of village Vosnes, typically a disappointing source of village wine but not in this case.

This is one special village wine…

FWIW the 98’ Rouget Vosne is drinking beautifully right now.

and the 06 rouget vosne village is pretty excellent too. A friend poured it, alongside grivot’s and meo’s and I added the tremblay (placed 2d), a couple of weeks ago and I was mighty impressed. No m-g tho.

I agree with the Mugneret-Gibourg Vosne Romanee. Great wine. Other village wines I have enjoyed are Tremblay VR or MSD, Truchot MSD VV (if one can still find it), Bachelet GC VV, and Fourier GC.

love the M-G and would also mention Burguet GC Mes Favorites, Bachelet GC VV and Lafarge Volnay VS in the $50 range

I agree with Tom and Leah here.

Mugneret has long been at the very top of the Vosne villages pile…it’s been great in every vintage I’ve had since 1985 (though I stopped with 2005, which was other-wordly). The Rouget, though is right up there, though clearly more oaked. The 2005 was also other worldly, and Rouget did great in 1998; he thinks he did better than he did in 1999, though he’s a bad judge of vintages…but…his '98s are hard to argue with. I’ve had a Savigny '98 in the last few months that was really good.

Can’t argue about who makes the “best” villages red wine, but there are several candidates…and it does depend on one’s preferences about the various villages’ characteristics. But, generally, the sweet spot for them is the Nuits-Morey “corridor”, IMO, with some good ones in the Cote de Beaune, too, though …Chevillon’s and Patrice Rion’s villages Nuits; Roumier’s Chambolle (though that is somewhat of a moving target as the stuff that’s in it now is very different from what was in it in 1990 or so…the Cras and the Combottes are now bottled individually as 1er crus)…and Rion’s “Les Cras” (the vineyard is divided and is not all 1er cru) are other candidates, for me.

But, hard to debate that Mugneret and Rouget’s villages belong in the contest. And, I’ve bought them and the others I’ve mentioned whenever I’ve had the chance…and have almost never been disappointed.

Too late, phaser is now set for “stun” when the 2009 hits shelves. :slight_smile:

Drouhin’s Cote de Beaune (not the Cote de Beaune-Villages) is an under-the-radar excellent villages level wine. In my top 5 for sure.

The wine we had last night is surely a contender, even after all the time. It was a 1983 Maume Gevrey-Chambertin ‘En Pallud’. Two years ago it was still quite hard, but last night is was rich spicy fruit, no hardness, with a good finish. Maume’s wines definitely need a lot of time.

I’ve no stake in this battle, but really look forward to tasting Barthod’s '09s when they become available. I’m a fan.

Cheers,
Andrew

No idea what’s happened there since the '90s…Dick…but…your statement is certainly true, and an understatement at that. Maume did make excellent '83s…or Mrs. Maume did. Apparently Bernard was hiking in the Vosges at harvest time and couldn’t get back in time to make the wines. But, 27+ years is sure “a lot of time” to wait.

Found a shop in FL that sells these for $49.99… Thanks for the note. I now have a couple bottles en route…