DOMAINE JEAN GRIVOT
Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er cru Les Pruliers
2008
Country
France
Regulated designation
Appellation origine controlée (AOC)
Region
Burgundy
Subregion
Côte de Nuits
Appellation
Nuits-Saint-Georges
Classification
1er cru
Varietal(s)
Pinot Noir
100 %
Colour
Red
Sugar
Dry
Aging vessel type
French oak barrels
Length of aging
18 months
Producer's website
About this winery
Domaine Jean Grivot is one of Burgundy's greatest small family estates, and their story is a classic Burgundy family story. They were one of the first families in Vosne Romanee to bottle and sell their own wine, beginning in the 1930's. The estate has been run by fifth-generation vigneron Etienne Grivot since 1987 with his wife Marielle. The domaine is an impressive 15ha in total, but in classic 'small is beautiful' Burgundian fashion it takes little bits of 22 different appellations to cobble...
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Product notes
A great terroir is exposed to the southeast. Although neighboring Roncieres the ground is quite different, very stony, limestone and less clay in Pruliers. These features give the wine an extra richness and rounder tannins. Long aging wine, it often requires ten years to refine and stores easily 20 years.
Production notes
Only the grapes perfectly ripe and healthy are retained. The scratch is made 95%. The pre-fermentation is 4 to 6 days. The fermentation is done exclusively with indigenous yeasts. A daily pumping is performed with control of temperature and density. Fermentation lasts about 17 days. Average of two extractions.
Press reviews
91-93
January 2015 (Vintage 2013)Here the nose is compositionally similar to that of the Roncières except that there is less spice and more earth, indeed even a hint of animale. There is a beguiling purity to the tautly muscular, intense and energetic medium weight plus flavors that also possess a firm minerality on the saline-inflected, balanced and quite solidly structured finish. As it virtually always is, this is a bigger, more powerful and more tannic wine than either of its two Nuits 1er stable mates and as a natural consequence will require a few more years of cellar time. Recommended, again provided that you have the patience to wait for it to mature.
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91-93
Stephen Tanzer, January 2015 (Vintage 2013)Bright, deep red. Higher-pitched and more pungent than the Roncières, with lovely stony lift to the raspberry and pomegrante aromas. Juicy, tight and youthfully clenched; a distinctly vertical style of wine with terrific energy and definition to its crunchy pomegranate and cranberry flavors. A compact premier cru from clay-rich soil.
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