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Domaine Seguin-Manuel Meursault VV 2009Price: $55.00    Case Price: $49.50

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Color:
White
Body/Type:
Full Bodied
Style:
Traditional
Size:
Bottle, 750 ml
Winery:
Domaine Seguin-Manuel
Grapes:
Chardonnay
Serve At:
54°-61° F
Region:
France > Burgundy > Meursault

Established in 1824, Domaine Seguin-Manuel was a well-known, family-run winery and negociant in Savigny, operating since early in the 20th Century out of a beautiful 14th century cellar established by the Cistercian monks of Citaux.

Marion's winemaking regime is, as he puts it, "very, very basic." The only piece of modern technology he can't live without is strict temperature control for his fermentations. Other than that, the wines are hand harvested, meticulously sorted, fermented with ambient yeasts in the original old oak vats (for reds) or in barrels (for whites), and are are almost always bottled without fining or filtration, though Marion says he's not against either practice if the wines need it. In the 2009 vintage all but one or two of his wines will be unfiltered.

Seguin-Manuel makes a total of about 5000 cases of wine each year, with about 1800 of those cases coming from its estate vineyards in Savigny. Marion is only on his sixth vintage since taking over the property, but it's quite clear that he knows what he's doing, and that the wines both excellent and improving.

180 years after its foundation in 1824, Domaine Seguin-Manuel has been completely renewed since its acquisition by Thibault Marion in 2004. 35 years old and born in a "vigneron" family, involved in the wine business for 10 years in Beaune, he started his career at the family winery Chanson Pere & Fils during seven years. He uses today all his experience and energy to produce great wines.

The great wines of Burgundy are uniquely complex, compelling and at times memorizing. Above all they are evocative, transformative but like all creatures, temperamental and anything but dependable. Two grapes dominate this agricultural masterpiece, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Both grapes achieve their greatest elegance when planted in cooler climates, to which Burgundy is the coolest and most Northern climate of all the major regions famous for red wines. When winemakers talk about Burgundy, they generally speak of terroir, the compilation of the vineyard's soil, slope, orientation, nuance of climate, etc. This concept of terroir is what makes wines produced from grapes even in the same village or vineyard strikingly different. Burgundy is a place of legend, awe and adventure, a place that wine lovers call home.

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