2009 | Domaine Dujac | Chambolle Musigny Les Gruenchers Supply

2009 | Domaine Dujac | Chambolle Musigny Les Gruenchers

Red Wine: 2009 | Domaine Dujac | Chambolle Musigny Les Gruenchers

The bouquet is deep, pure and really lovely, as it offers up a perfumed mélange of sappy red and black cherries, raw cocoa, lovely soil tones, a nice touch of violets, gamebirds and vanillin oak.

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Producer: Domaine Dujac

Ratings: WA | 93  BH | 91

Vintage: 2009

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Detailed Description

The bouquet is deep, pure and really lovely, as it offers up a perfumed mélange of sappy red and black cherries, raw cocoa, lovely soil tones, a nice touch of violets, gamebirds and vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is fullish, long and very sappy at the core, with lovely focus and grip, beautiful nascent complexity, ripe tannins and outstanding length and grip on the classy and pure finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chambolle-Musigny Les Gruenchers is all finesse and elegance. It shows superb intensity in its fruit, with tons of finesse, silky tannins and exceptional overall balance. it is a dazzling wine from Dujac. The Gruenchers was vinified with 100% whole clusters.

• Burghound: An expressive nose offers up very spicy and largely floral-dominated aromas of black raspberry liqueur. The rich, generous and forward middle weight flavors possess good verve as well as ample minerality that give lift to the mouth coating and gorgeously long finish brimming with dry extract. This is one of the more structured vintages of this wine that I have seen as it will require 10 to 15 years to be at its best.

Producer Information

Domaine Dujac is a highly regarded and critically lauded wine producer based in Burgundy’s Morey-Saint-Denis appellation. It makes high-quality wines from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, ranging from entry-level Bourgogne to wines made from some of the top Grand Cru vineyards in the Côte de Nuits, including Clos de la Roche and Le Chambertin. The domaine was founded in 1968 by Jacques Seysses, who had spent the previous few years travelling around Burgundy learning the craft from the likes of Aubert de Villaine at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti and Charles Rousseau of Domaine Armand Rousseau. He purchased a small, run-down property in Morey-Saint-Denis and planted some Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. In the late 20th Century, Dujac expanded its estate, acquiring grand cru plots in Clos de la Roche (the domaine has just under two hectares/five acres here), Clos St-Denis (1.4 hectares/3.4 acres) and in northern Bonnes-Mares (nearly 0.6 hectares/1.5 acres). Dujac has also expanded further afield, taking control of plots in Romanée-Saint-Vivant (0.17 hectares/0.4 acres) and Le Chambertin (almost 0.3 hectares/0.7 acres), in Vosne-Romanée and Gevrey-Chambertin respectively. Further expansion has occurred in the range of white wines which now encompasses the Puligny-Montrachet premiers crus of Les Folatières and Les Combettes (acquired in 2014), as well as Les Monts Luisants closer to home in Morey. The family also runs a négoce firm, Dujac Fils & Père, set up in 2000, allowing fruit to be bought in as and when required. This label generally features fruit acquired around Morey and the nearby communes, pushing out into Nuits-Saint-Georges and Chambolle-Musigny. Jeremy Seysses gradually took over from his father Jacques after he started working at the domaine in 1998. He has since been joined by wife Diana and brother Alec. Since the 1960s, Dujac has made a few small changes to its winemaking style. Less new oak is used for the younger wines, and the winery is now air conditioned to allow for later malolactic fermentation. Traditionally, whole bunch pressing was used, but now the grapes undergo a small amount of destemming if ripeness levels are not high enough. Other than this, the wines have been made in the same way for half a century and are never filtered and very rarely fined.