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Two thousand twelve has been a great paradox from the very beginning, said Mounir Saouma before we tasted through his extraordinary collection of wines from this vintage.  « It started with a very warm March followed by sharply colder weather at the end of the month.  We had too much rain during the spring and then…

It is always a pleasure to visit the indefatigable Mounir Saouma at his hideaway winery just off the Beaune periphique. He is a winemaker you can jest with, and he is often victim of my sardonic Essex humor (for example, when enthusing about obtaining one of five barrels of a premier cru, I dryly enquired…

By James MOLESWORTH At Rotem & Mounir Saouma, a Little Bit of EverythingBut there’s nothing ordinary about this young Rhône domaine There are different ways to create a domaine. Most who start from scratch build up slowly, progressing linearly, either growing in size and/or refining or evolving their style over the years. Or you can…

Tastings at Lucien Le Moine seem to be getting longer and longer. This year it took two sessions to go through all the wines! As always, the selection of 1er and Grand Crus in these small, cramped cellars is striking. In a year in which yields are down so sharply, with one or two exceptions…

I have intermittently encountered the wines of Lucien Le Moine over the years and even spent an evening dining with the man behind it, Mounir, on one admittedly inebriated dinner a few years ago. But it was time to visit the winery tucked away down a side-street in Beaune, and taste through an enormous selection…

Mounir Saouma’s counter-culture winemaking ideology has paid off in 2011, with potentially classic Pinots and Chardonnays. Tasting the wines of Lucien Le Moine is a fascinating exercise, in part because co-proprietor Mounir Saouma sources excellent wines, but mainly because Saouma’s ideology often runs counter to the prevailing wisdom in Burgundy. Saouma generally loves a long…

Mounir and Rotem Saouma established their two-person micro-négoce in 1999 that focuses exclusively on the very best 1ers and grands crus. They describe the 2011 as “another tiny but completely classic vintage that on paper at least closely resembles 2010. The growing seasons though were completely different and it’s interesting how you can have what…

Bonjour, Venez nous voir à Vinexpo Bordeaux, nous y sommes au HALL 1 Stand B 257 du Dimanche 16 Juin jusqu’a Jeudi 20. Nous vous conseillons de prendre un rendez vous pour discuter ou pour déguster. En dehors d’un assortiment de Crus présenter tous les jours , nous allons faire des Dégustations de Nos trois…