Clos St Denis Lucien Le Moine 2016

Clos St Denis Lucien Le Moine 2016

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Clos St Denis Lucien Le Moine 2016
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75 cl

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The grand cru Clos Saint-Denis is located on the mid-slope of the Côte d`Or escarpment, immediately north of Morey-Saint-Denis village, and covers 6.6 hectares of land. A number of prestigious domaines and négociants make Clos Saint-Denis wines, including Lucien Le Moine. This cuvée from the 2016 vintage displays aromas of violets, dried roses and blood orange. On the palate, notes of iron, orange zest and celery seed emerge, along with a zesty positive bitterness.
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Medium red-ruby, a bit lighter than the Clos de la Roche. Less delineated and nuanced on the nose in the early going, hinting at violet, dried rose and blood orange. Dense but quite reticent, and hiding more than it's showing today. With aeration, notes of iron, orange zest and celery seed emerge, along with a zesty positive bitterness. Finishes with terrific inner-mouth spicy lift and a light touch. I was shocked to hear that this wine was among the highest in pH and lowest in acidity of the 2016s at Lucien Le Moine. Mounir Saouma told me that ten days ago, this wine was more presentable than the Clos de la Roche.Stephen Tanzer1st January 2018

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Founded by Mounir and Rotem Saouma in the late 1990s, Lucien Le Moine is a small, quality focussed négociant that bottle wines from some of the greatest Premier and Grand Cru vineyards in the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune. The team aim to bottle around 100 barrels each vintage, which can sometimes represent over 60 different wines. There are no contracts with the growers and no winemaking requirements from Lucien Le Moine beyond the stipulation that the wines be of the highest possible quality.

The wines arrive with Lucien Le Moine fully vinified and Rotem and Mounir focus solely on élévage, racking the wines into new oak barrels made to their own particular specifications. It's tricky to generalise across dozens of wines from many different crus, but both the whites and reds tend towards the generous with a ripeness of fruit and a fullness of body that is rare in the Côte d'Or.

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