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2016 Richebourg, Grand Cru, Domaine Jean Grivot, Burgundy

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Pinot Noir
Ready - youthful (Drink 2023 - 2051)
Neal Martin MW
96-98/100
Product: 20161035708

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2016 Richebourg, Grand Cru, Domaine Jean Grivot, Burgundy
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2016
Maturity Ready - youthful (2023 - 2051)
Grape List Pinot Noir
Body Full Bodied
Producer Domaine Jean Grivot

Critics reviews

Neal Martin MW 96-98/100
The 2016 Richebourg Grand Cru was not touched at all by the frost, so there are the full five barrels this year (sometimes it can be six). It has a majestic bouquet with ample blackberry, raspberry preserve and brown spice scents, later a touch of white flowers and truffle. This is so mercurial in the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grain tannin. This is beautifully focused, tensile and brimming with energy, yet it remains linear, almost aloof right to the finish, a covert sign that it should not be broached for at least a decade like most great Richebourgs. An aristocrat.Neil Martin - 29/12/2017
Neal Martin MW, (Dec 2017)

About this wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating, and at times infuriating, wine grape in the world. However when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape which grows in small, tight bunches performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone based subsoils as are found on Burgundy's Côte d'Or. Pinot Noir is more susceptible than other varieties to over cropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of the Côte d`Or.
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Richebourg

Richebourg

Richebourg, a prestigious winemaking region in Burgundy's Côte de Nuits, holds the distinguished Grand Cru classification, renowned for exceptional Pinot Noir wines. Its diverse terroir with limestone, clay, and marl soils contributes to the wines' complexity. Highly esteemed for elegance and depth, the wines age gracefully, gaining complexity over time.
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Domaine Jean Grivot

Jean Grivot took over from his father, Gaston, in 1955. He handed the domaine on to son Étienne – married to Marielle Bize from Savigny – in the early 1980s. When Etienne Grivot took over, the house style was for gentle, graceful wines, perhaps a little weak in lesser vintages. Étienne has since found his own voice, making a range of increasingly fine wines. Since the mid-2000s, he has reduced yields and fine-tuned vineyard and cellar work. The next generation – Mathilde and Hubert – are increasingly influential, working under their father’s experienced and wise guidance.
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