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Domanine Jean-Marc Millot
Jean-Marc Millot
The 50-year-old Jean-Marc Millot inherited much of his domain through his mother, nee Gouroux, of Flagey-Echezeaux. The winemaking is conservative, in the best sense of the word: low harvests, retaining some of the stems, and maceration for 2 to 3 weeks or more. The wines are full, rich and sturdy. The Grands-Echezeaux is matured in 100 percent new wood and is concentrated and old-vincy. It needs time. In 2004 Millot moved his headquarters from the family cellars in Comblanchien to a brand new cuverie in Nuits-Saint-Georges. Coupled with a greater attention to triage than hitherto, this has led to an immediate rise in quality.
Winemaker’s Comment in Vintage 2008
The self-effacing Jean-Marc told me that 2008 was a “very challenging vintage. The growing season was mediocre and there was a lot of rot and if it hadn’t been for a near perfect September, it would have a disaster as nothing would have been ripe, or if it was, it would have been rotten. We began picking on the 22nd of September and the sorting required was frankly incredible. The fruit that we kept however was definitely ripe with very good sugars that ranged between 12.5 to 13%. I did a 2 to 15 day cuvaison ad vinified quite gently. 2008 is a pretty vintage where the wines resemble the 2007s.”(from Burghound.com / January 2010)
Jean-Marc Millot Cotes de Nuits Villages 2008 (85-87)
Normal Price: $280 Special Price: $230
Tasting note:
This also sports an intensely soil-inflected nose with ripe and very fresh aromas that speak of violets, plum and cassis that give way to nicely detailed and precise barely middle weight flavors that also culminate in a mildly edgy finish.
Jean-Marc Millot Savigny Les Beaune Les Golardes 2008 (84-87)
Normal Price: $280 Special Price: $230
Tasting note:
A nose full of Savigny-style earth and both red and blue pinot fruit merges into round and nicely intense flavors that possess a moderately angular and tangy finish. This too needs additional time.
Jean-Marc Millot Vosne Romanee 2008 (87-89)
Normal Price: $580 Special Price: $490
Tasting note:
A notably riper nose features spice-infused aromas of violets and red pinot fruit trimmed in subtle earth notes that can also be found on the mineral-inflected middle weight flavors that possess a beguiling mouth feel and better than average length for a villages-level wine.
Jean-Marc Millot Vosne Romanee Suchots 2008 (88-91)
Normal Price: $785 Special Price: $660
Tasting note:
A nose of black cherry, cassis and anise nuances are surrounded by pain grille hints that introduce equally spicy, pure and seductively texture flavors that possess good vibrancy on the racy and ever-so-mildly austere finish. A classic Vosne in character.
Jean-Marc Millot Echezeaux 2008 (89-92)
Normal Price: $980 Special Price: $830
Tasting note:
Moderate reduction prevents an evaluation of the nose but the concentration, rich and serious medium weight flavors are delicious and solidly complex, all wrapped a lingering finish that coats the mouth. This is lovely and avoids any sense of rusticity.
Jean-Marc Millot Clos Vougeot 2008 (89-92)
Normal Price: $980 Special Price: $830
Tasting note:
A noticeable if discreet touch of wood frames more deeply pitched and slightly riper aromas of red and blue berry fruit that complement well the rich, full and round flavors that possess an attractive mouth feel on the precise, intense and persistent finish where the usual youthful austerity of Clos de Vougeot surfaces.
Jean-Marc Millot Grand Echezeaux 2008 (90-92)
Normal Price: $1,180 Special Price: $1000
Tasting note:
Here the wood treatment is almost invisible as the highly spiced and wonderfully fresh red currant, earth and underbrush aromas are allowed to shine as are the equally fresh, vibrant intense and precise medium weight flavors that display a subtle hint of minerality and culminate in a somewhat dry finish which is probably due to the considerable gas. Benefit of the doubt offered. |
