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  • Burgundy Diary part 5: A Peak of Natural Wine? – a Visit with Lucien Le Moine in Beaune

    A Bach cantata was playing when I arrived for a meeting at Lucien Le Moine in Beaune. From outside the premises look like a run down property in a street just outside the town center, but workmen were coming and going, and the interior had been handsomely renovated, practical rather than flashy, but with a…

  • LE MOINE 2012 by Stephen Tanzer

    LE MOINE 2012 by Stephen Tanzer

    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…

  • LE MOINE 2012

    LE MOINE 2012

    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…

  • WINE SPECTATOR / RHONE

    WINE SPECTATOR / RHONE

    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…

  • Jefford on Monday: Learning On The Hill

    By Andrew Jefford Few regions have had worse luck with the weather over the past four vintages than Burgundy: a 30% shortfall in 2010; 25% down in 2011; only half a crop in 2012 and 2013. That makes one-and-a-half missing harvests in four years. Or, if you prefer, about 1.5bn potential euros swirling off down…

  • 2012 Red Wine

    2012 Red Wine

    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…

  • PARKER 2011

    PARKER 2011

    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…

  • 2011 Burgundy Preview: A Cellar Full of Gems at Lucien Le Moine

    2011 Burgundy Preview: A Cellar Full of Gems at Lucien Le Moine

    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…

  • RED 2011

    RED 2011

    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…

  • LUCIEN LE MOINE AT VINEXPO BORDEAUX 2013

    LUCIEN LE MOINE AT VINEXPO BORDEAUX 2013

    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…

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