The Clos du Chateau de Montaigu has been one of our greatest best buys for Premier Cru Red Burgundy for 12 years running. 2023 is a fantastic example and a top buy for the category, one of the best vintages ever here. Clos du Château de Montaigu is a fantastic Monopole vineyard from Meix-Foulot and is the domaine's most cherished site. Shy of 2 hectares in total, Clos du Chateau de Montaigu has plantings from 1955 that yield tiny berries that help add elegance and some old vine concentration to the wine. This is an elegant and refined red Burgundy from low-yielding vines, closer in style to its northern neighbors in the Côte d'Or than to the Côte Chalonnaise. It's a wine that would fit right in blind with some Côte d'Or premier crus, and at a price lower than some producers' Bourgogne Rouge. This is truly the ultimate best buy for the category in 2023, and we have low pricing today on some of the only bottles available in the US!
Decanter (Charles Curtis) 94 pts! This ravishing, expressive wine impresses with its fragrant aromas of ripe blackberry, lavender and spice. There is a bit of influence from the cask ageing at this point, but this will integrate with time. The texture is supple and velvety, suggesting early drinking, but there is also a core of tannin here that will sustain the wines for at least a decade. The grapes are from the signature 1.9ha monopole clos behind the domaine, whose oldest vines at the base of the slope are a massale selection planted in the 1950s. (Drink between 2024 - 2045)
Burghound 92 pts! This is also mildly reduced so again, a thorough aeration is the order of the day if you're opening one in the next year or so. The more refined and slightly more vibrant, though not denser, medium-bodied flavors possess excellent delineation and a subtle minerality that adds a sense of lift to the dusty, compact and built-to-age finale. This is almost always the best wine in the range and it appears to be so again in 2023. Worth considering. (Drink starting 2034)
2023 Domaine du Meix-Foulot Mercurey 1er Cru Clos du Château de Montaigu
2023 Domaine du Meix-Foulot Mercurey 1er Cru Clos du Château de Montaigu
The Clos du Chateau de Montaigu has been one of our greatest best buys for Premier Cru Red Burgundy for 12 years running. 2023 is a fantastic example and a top buy for the category, one of the best vintages ever here. Clos du Château de Montaigu is a fantastic Monopole vineyard from Meix-Foulot and is the domaine's most cherished site. Shy of 2 hectares in total, Clos du Chateau de Montaigu has plantings from 1955 that yield tiny berries that help add elegance and some old vine concentration to the wine. This is an elegant and refined red Burgundy from low-yielding vines, closer in style to its northern neighbors in the Côte d'Or than to the Côte Chalonnaise. It's a wine that would fit right in blind with some Côte d'Or premier crus, and at a price lower than some producers' Bourgogne Rouge. This is truly the ultimate best buy for the category in 2023, and we have low pricing today on some of the only bottles available in the US!
Decanter (Charles Curtis) 94 pts! This ravishing, expressive wine impresses with its fragrant aromas of ripe blackberry, lavender and spice. There is a bit of influence from the cask ageing at this point, but this will integrate with time. The texture is supple and velvety, suggesting early drinking, but there is also a core of tannin here that will sustain the wines for at least a decade. The grapes are from the signature 1.9ha monopole clos behind the domaine, whose oldest vines at the base of the slope are a massale selection planted in the 1950s. (Drink between 2024 - 2045)
Burghound 92 pts! This is also mildly reduced so again, a thorough aeration is the order of the day if you're opening one in the next year or so. The more refined and slightly more vibrant, though not denser, medium-bodied flavors possess excellent delineation and a subtle minerality that adds a sense of lift to the dusty, compact and built-to-age finale. This is almost always the best wine in the range and it appears to be so again in 2023. Worth considering. (Drink starting 2034)
