Domaine Méo Camuzet - Nuits Saint Georges 2021
Domaine Méo-Camuzet is located in Vosne-Romanée, in the Côte de Nuits , in Burgundy . For more than four centuries, members of the Méo family have devoted themselves to growing vines and making wine. They come from the Burgundian village of Lorsgey, in the north of the Côte d'Or. The estate's founder, Etienne Camuzet , was an early 20th century politician based in Paris, who offered parts of his estate to a variety of sharecroppers to farm. Eventually it passed into the hands of Jean-Nicolas Méo in 1989, who realized that extensive sharecropping meant that only a small portion of the vines were under the domain's control. He has implemented a long-term strategy to recover plots from sharecroppers with the aim of eventually having fruit grown on the estate and bottlings under his own label, Méo-Camuzet. Méo-Camuzet today has 14 hectares of vines, cultivated according to the principles of organic farming , but without certification .
Nuits-Saint-Georges comes from a 60-acre plot located in “Bas de Combes”. The Pinot Noir vine, which is over 60 years old, produces small millerandé grapes often the size of a pine cone. The vintage is therefore subject to a supplement in the form of purchasing wine from a Nuit-Saint-Georges winegrower. The wine is aged in barrels of which approximately 50% are new.
Grape variety: 100% Pinot Noir