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MEO-CAMUZET
Until the late 1980s, this Domaine was the Sleeping Beauty of Vosne-Romanée. The estate is famed for its key holding in Richebourg and also owns some of the greatest sections of Clos-Vougeot (high on the hillside, running up to the château). The Domaine also has precious holdings in two of the greatest Vosne-Romanée 1st Growths, Cros-Parantoux and Les Brûlées, both touching Richebourg, along with the superb Nuits-Saint-Georges 1st Growth Les Murgers.
The estate's vineyards were farmed on a tenant basis by three local families (Jayer, Faurois and Tardy) for many decades. The property belonged to Jean Méo, who lived in Paris, and was a technical advisor to Général de Gaulle, as well as to the young Jacques Chirac. At this time, the wines were mainly sold in barrel to local Burgundy merchants.
From 1989, Jean Méo's son Jean-Nicolas took up the reins, moving to Vosne-Romanée. Having studied in Paris, and at the University of Pennsylvania, he completed an oenology degree at Dijon University. Progressively, he took back all the family vineyards in order to manage them personally, while for a time retaining the wine-making services of the legendary Henri Jayer (who was a tenant farmer of this Domaine for fifty years).
Today, Jean-Nicolas Méo aims "to transmute the qualities of the soil into a bouquet of sensations". The wine-making practices include total or virtually total de-stemming, cold maceration and a fermentation time of over two weeks. In the vineyards, there has been a return to greater respect for the soil. There is rigorous green-harvesting when needed, with careful elimination of imperfectly ripe grapes. In style, the wines are not dominated by the search for colour-depth, power or structure, but rather by a pursuit of concentration, balanced by complexity and exceptional length.
We are greatly privileged to offer these bottles and magnums from the Domaine's cellars, which have lain undisturbed since bottling.
A.H.
The magnums are rare indeed with only a small quantity being made. All verticals offered come in a wooden presentation case created uniquely for the Millennium.
Richebourg--Vintage 1990
Côte de Nuits, Méo-Camuzet
When youthful, this had dazzling, exuberant qualities of fruit and spiciness, supported by a rich framework of ripe tannins, and solid, dense fruitiness. Like many of the greatest 1990s, it is by no means mature, and will repay good cellaring for decades, to allow silky texture to emerge, along with its complex, spectacular length of flavour. AH
3 bottles per lot
Until the late 1980s, this Domaine was the Sleeping Beauty of Vosne-Romanée. The estate is famed for its key holding in Richebourg and also owns some of the greatest sections of Clos-Vougeot (high on the hillside, running up to the château). The Domaine also has precious holdings in two of the greatest Vosne-Romanée 1st Growths, Cros-Parantoux and Les Brûlées, both touching Richebourg, along with the superb Nuits-Saint-Georges 1st Growth Les Murgers.
The estate's vineyards were farmed on a tenant basis by three local families (Jayer, Faurois and Tardy) for many decades. The property belonged to Jean Méo, who lived in Paris, and was a technical advisor to Général de Gaulle, as well as to the young Jacques Chirac. At this time, the wines were mainly sold in barrel to local Burgundy merchants.
From 1989, Jean Méo's son Jean-Nicolas took up the reins, moving to Vosne-Romanée. Having studied in Paris, and at the University of Pennsylvania, he completed an oenology degree at Dijon University. Progressively, he took back all the family vineyards in order to manage them personally, while for a time retaining the wine-making services of the legendary Henri Jayer (who was a tenant farmer of this Domaine for fifty years).
Today, Jean-Nicolas Méo aims "to transmute the qualities of the soil into a bouquet of sensations". The wine-making practices include total or virtually total de-stemming, cold maceration and a fermentation time of over two weeks. In the vineyards, there has been a return to greater respect for the soil. There is rigorous green-harvesting when needed, with careful elimination of imperfectly ripe grapes. In style, the wines are not dominated by the search for colour-depth, power or structure, but rather by a pursuit of concentration, balanced by complexity and exceptional length.
We are greatly privileged to offer these bottles and magnums from the Domaine's cellars, which have lain undisturbed since bottling.
A.H.
The magnums are rare indeed with only a small quantity being made. All verticals offered come in a wooden presentation case created uniquely for the Millennium.
Richebourg--Vintage 1990
Côte de Nuits, Méo-Camuzet
When youthful, this had dazzling, exuberant qualities of fruit and spiciness, supported by a rich framework of ripe tannins, and solid, dense fruitiness. Like many of the greatest 1990s, it is by no means mature, and will repay good cellaring for decades, to allow silky texture to emerge, along with its complex, spectacular length of flavour. AH
3 bottles per lot