Domaine Jacques Prieur, Musigny Grand Cru, Burgundy, 2010

Tasting

Tasted in September 2012 (source estate)
COLOR: Deep ruby red with fresh and intense violet reflections.
NOSE: Refined and elegant with notes of fresh, ripe, and crunchy small fruits.
PALATE: Both dense and enveloping, velvety. Thick and satin texture. Fruity, ripe, fresh, and tangy tannins. Extremely young wine.

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

• Domain: Domaine Jacques Prieur

• Cuvée: Musigny Grand Cru

• Country: France

• Region: Burgundy

• Sub-region: Côte de Nuits

• Appellation: Musigny Grand Cru

• Color: Red wine

• Type: dry, still

• Vintage: 2010

• Surface area: 

• Age of the vines: 

• Grape variety: 100% Pinot Noir with white juice

• Area: plot of 0.77 hectares

• TERROIR: We are here in one of the largest terroirs of the Côte de Nuits. Located on a fault overlooking the Clos de Vougeot and adjacent to the Combe d'Orveau. The Musigny facing Southeast benefits from a confined and sunny microclimate. Its thin and light soil with a strong presence of stones, ensuring good drainage, enhances this impression of warmth. The grapes, always swollen with sunlight and at ideal ripeness, give rise to a velvety nectar with floral notes of violets that have great persistence on the palate.

• VINIFICATION & ELEVAGE: The grapes are hand-harvested, then sorted and completely destemmed. The maceration lasted 22 days at controlled temperature in wooden vats. We perform punching down twice a day during the active phase of alcoholic fermentation. Malolactic fermentation is completed at 100%. Aging is done 100% in new oak barrels.

• Duration of aging: 18 months.

• Format: Bottle 75 CL
  
  

About the vintage

Source Estate

2010: Small harvest and great quality

After a cold and endless winter, spring settles in as early as April, with temperatures above seasonal averages, allowing the vine to quickly resume its activity. Bud break occurs in a few days (around April 20). The gloomy and cool weather in June leads to significant shatter. Flowering is disrupted. The first half of July is summery. Veraison typically begins in mid-August but lasts several weeks (rain and coolness). Maturation takes its time. Fortunately, the sun returns at the beginning of September and stays for three weeks. A small quantity of grapes, small berries, and airy clusters help maintain good health and achieve good ripeness. However, the choice of harvest date for each plot required a lot of thought, and we did not give in to the 'wind of panic' over a supposed deterioration in the health of the grapes!