Domaine Georges & Christophe Roumier Bonnes Mares Grand Cru 2010 
Red Burgundy

Back label stained, Back Label stained

Tasting

The Grand Cru Bonnes-Mares is the blend of two exceptional terroirs "Les Terres Rouges" and "Les Terres Blanches". A blend that allows for a wine more complex than the best part of its two components. "Les Terres Rouges" confer richness, creaminess, and aromas of red fruits, even black for certain vintages. "Les Terres Blanches" express themselves through spice, white flowers, and even red peony with its peppery notes. The fusion of the two terroirs gives birth to a wine combining creaminess and rigidity, fruitiness and minerality, the strength of a Morey Saint Denis with the complexity of a Chambolle Musigny!
Source domain

Food and wine pairings 

Braised duck with peas, veal shank with vegetables, roasted stuffed goose, lobster with red wine, partridges, sweetbreads with morels, roasted quail, duck fillets, beef bourguignon, roasted woodcock, stew, lobster with coral sauce, spring veal chop, royal hare, matured rib of beef.

Technical characteristics

• Estate: Domaine Georges & Christophe Roumier

• Cuvée:  Bonnes Mares Grand Cru

• Country: France

• Region: Bourgogne

• Subregion: Côte de Nuits

• Appellation: Bonnes Mares Grand Cru

• Color: Red wine

• Type: dry, still

• Vintage: 2006

• Surface area & yield:  1.3919 hectares. Yield: 30hl/ha

• Average age of the vines:

• Grape variety: 100% Pinot Noir

• Harvest: manual

• Exposure: East. Slope of 15 to 20%

• Altitude: From 270 to 310 meters

• Subsoil: Limestone marls in the upper part and clay-limestone soil in the lower part of the slope

• Pruning: Guyot pruning - Average age of the vine: 40 years

• Average Aging: 5 to 20 years:

• Terroir: The Grand Cru "Bonnes Mares" is one of the two grand crus of the Chambolle Musigny appellation. Located to the north of Chambolle. It is the neighbor of Clos de Tart in Morey Saint Denis. The Georges Roumier estate has equal surface areas of the 2 types of soils. The upper part of the slope "Les Terres Blanches" is composed of limestone marls rich in fossils of Ostrea Acuminata. The lower part "Les Terres Rouges" consists of a clay-limestone subsoil with compact rocks from the Bathonian (type limestone of Premeaux). The vinification produces 2 cuvées, blended for aging and bottling.

• Vinification and Aging:

  Manual harvesting and sorting - 65% destemming - Punching down during the maceration of the grapes - Fermentation only with indigenous yeasts - No enzyming - The wines are neither fined nor filtered - The wines are aged for 16 months in oak barrels of 2 to 8 years - 30% new barrels

• Production: 5083 bottles, 160 magnums and 5 jeroboams

• Format: Bottle 75 CL

About the vintage

Freshness and rain did not defeat the 2010 vintage. On the contrary! After a particularly late bud break (the latest in the last 15 years) and a gloomy summer, the harvest began on September 28. But the result was magnificent! The grapes showed beautiful maturity and the vintage proved to be of great aromatic complexity. 2010 is a great vintage capable of revealing each appellation. The wines from this vintage, marked by a slightly higher acidity than average, will age harmoniously but are also enjoyable very young.