2008 | Domaine Jean Grivot | Vosne Romanee Les Beaux Monts Supply

2008 | Domaine Jean Grivot | Vosne Romanee Les Beaux Monts

Red Wine: 2008 | Domaine Jean Grivot | Vosne Romanee Les Beaux Monts

Good full, bright red. Wonderfully aromatic nose offers raspberry, cherry, wild herbs, flowers, white pepper and cumin. Silky on entry, then gripping and sweet in the mid-palate, a distinct step up in intensity and plenitude from the village wines. The mounting, energetic finish really stains the palate.

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Producer: Domaine Jean Grivot

Ratings: WA | 92  V | 94

Vintage: 2008

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Pinot Noir

Country/Region: France, Burgundy

Detailed Description

Good full, bright red. Wonderfully aromatic nose offers raspberry, cherry, wild herbs, flowers, white pepper and cumin. Silky on entry, then gripping and sweet in the mid-palate, a distinct step up in intensity and plenitude from the village wines. The mounting, energetic finish really stains the palate.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: Pungent iodine, Lapsang tea, peat, crushed stone, and brown spices mingle with fresh black fruits in the nose of Grivot’s 2008 Vosne Romanee Les Beaumonts, which in the mouth adds savory, umami-rich shrimp shell reduction and soy to its berry and mineral melange. Finely tannic and with undeniably austere elements to its strong mineral expression, this nonetheless draws saliva and invigorates with its saline, smoky, spicy, tartly juicy, palate-staining, vibrant persistence. Strikingly delicious and fascinatingly complex as this is, Grivot seeks to assure me that it isn’t showing all that it had prior to bottling, although I’m finding that hard to imagine in this instance!

• Vinous: The 2008 Vosne-Romanee Les Beaux Monts is fresh, vibrant and beautifully explosive. The rich, layered fruit finds a fabulous counterpoint in the nuanced aromatics and chiseled finish. This is a beautiful, complete wine with a very bright future.

Producer Information

Domaine Jean Grivot is an estate in the Côte d’Or of Burgundy known for its deep, aromatic Pinot Noir wines with bright red fruit characteristics. The domaine only makes wines from its own vineyards. Grivot owns around 15 hectares (37 acres) of land across Vosne-Romanée and Nuits-Saint-Georges, including plots in Echézeaux, Richebourg and a sizeable 1.9-ha (4.6-acre) parcel in the legendary Clos de Vougeot vineyard. Everything is planted to Pinot Noir, except for a few rows of Chardonnay, which goes into the Bourgogne Blanc. All of Grivot’s vineyards are planted to high densities to to encourage competition between the vines, which helps to lower yields. This is further lowered by the use of green harvests, which reduce crop size in favour of quality. The vines are all 40 years or older. In the winery, the bunches are 95 percent destalked and then undergo four to six days of cold maceration before fermentation in stainless steel. Grivot’s wines are generally matured in oak barrels for 18 months with varying proportions of new oak: around 25 percent for village wines, up to 60 percent for premier cru and as much as 70 percent for grand crus. Wines are bottled without fining or filtration in accordance with lunar movements and atmospheric pressure. The Grivot family originated from the Jura region and were growing vines as early as the mid 17th Century. Just before the French Revolution, the family moved to Vosne-Romanée. The estate proper was developed in the early 1900s by Gaston Grivot, who sold his lesser plots to buy the Clos de Vougeot parcel in 1919. Domaine Jean Grivot became one of the first Burgundy domaines to bottle and sell its own wines.