Wine List
A PDF of our current wine list can be downloaded here. Listed by country and region, it features all our duty paid, ready to deliver wines.
A PDF of our current wine list can be downloaded here. Listed by country and region, it features all our duty paid, ready to deliver wines.
£32.90
6 in stock
This comes from Brochon, adjoining Gevrey-Chambertin to the north, and the grapes were 100% de-stemmed. Our allocation is not large, as only four barrels were made. Colour is mid-deep, ruby-purple, aromas fragrant and open. Palate shows fresh, bright fruitiness, very appealing and balanced (for drinking 2023-2025+).
Weight | 1.5 kg |
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Wine Name | Bourgogne Côte d`Or Pinot Noir, Domaine Henri Magnien |
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Product Code | CJ0021RA |
Customs Status | Duty Paid |
Tax Status | Inc Tax |
Clients with long memories will recall that we shipped wines from this estate in the mid-1980s – when Henri, the grandfather of Charles Magnien, who now runs the estate, was in charge. The Domaine has extraordinary vineyard-holdings on the Côte Saint-Jacques. This is a hillside of Gevrey-Chambertin First Growths, above the village, which narrowly missed classification as Grands Crus, in the 1930s.
Since taking over the reins, Charles has been determinedly bringing it back up to the level which made his grand-father’s wines exceptional. Charles makes a point of preserving and propagating the “Pinot Noir Magnien”, whose existence dates from 1850, giving grapes with thick skins, and only small amounts of juice. Working closely with his cooper, he has developed his own, lightly-fired but long-time-toasted oak barrels, with the object of eliminating the vanilla or coffee aromas which may come with heavier toasting. “I search to produce fine wine, not tannic wine – wine you can drink young, and keep if you want,” says Charles. He is a new star in Gevrey-Chambertin, whose wines we were the first to re-introduce to UK Burgundy-lovers in 2018, with the 2016 vintage.
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