Domaine Méo-Camuzet - Nuits Saint Georges 2019
Domaine Méo-Camuzet is located in Vosne-Romanée, in the Côte de Nuits, in Burgundy. For more than four centuries, the members of the Méo family have devoted themselves to growing vines and making wine. They come from the Burgundian village of Selongey, north of the Côte d'Or. The founder of the estate, Etienne Camuzet, was an early 20th century politician based in Paris, who offered parts of his estate to a variety of sharecroppers to cultivate. Eventually it passed into the hands of Jean-Nicolas Méo in 1989, who realised that extensive sharecropping meant that only a small portion of the vines were under the estate's control. He has put in place a long-term strategy to recover the plots from the sharecroppers with the aim of eventually having fruit grown on the estate and bottling under his own label, Méo-Camuzet. Méo-Camuzet now has 14 hectares of vines, cultivated according to the principles of organic farming, but without certification.
The Nuits-Saint-Georges comes from a plot of 60 ares located in "Bas de Combes". The Pinot Noir vine, which is over 60 years old, produces small milleranded grapes often the size of pine cones. The cuvée is therefore subject to a supplement in the form of the purchase of wine from a winegrower in Nuit-Saint-Georges. The wine is aged in barrels, about 50% of which are new.
Grape variety: 100% Pinot Noir