General reflections on Burgundy vintages 06-10?

[Bill Lundstrom]

originally posted by Marc D:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by .sasha:

originally posted by maureen:

And the Truchot C-M sentiers I brought the first time i met you. No fb that eve though.

that was better than acceptable, wasn't it?

Kirk, have you tasted sentiers from stephane magnien? mine is in the queue

I have, tasted when ian had it, and i thought terrific and immediately bought several. Quite poised and stylish. Excellent fruit, not over-fruited, nicely balanced.

that's how I felt about the village morey ( a particular favourite of fb incidentally ) and the blended 1er version

it was rather curious to have these two in a lofty '10 lineup recently, with all sorts of fancy labels like mugnier, pousse d'or, mugneret, drouhin, rossignol, roumier, hudelot-noellat, etc. - they still somehow managed to stand out on account of purity

OK, now I'm curious, who is this Stephane Magnien and how do his wines get to the states?

This isn't the North Berkley Magnien, is it?

Not those Magniens, different guy.
I tried the MSD village on a recommendation from David Lillie. Jean Paul is the father, Stephane his son.
I agree it was really nice, and underpriced compared to the other shite from Cote de Nuit out there.

i was told david lillie tasted with him, loved the wines, and arranged to have them imported. i dont have abottle handy to check the importer.

 

[Marc D]

From D Lillie: S. Magnien is not related to the other Magniens, his family has never used herbicides, not organic but almost. Very little extraction, old-fashioned light and elegant wines...

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

Bill Nanson has a profile on Stephane, fwiw, which says he is Jean Paul's son. There's also a vintner's website.

 

[BJ]

The NBI Magnien sucks. Of course.

 

[MLipton]

originally posted by BJ:
The NBI Magnien sucks. Of course.

Even when it isn't systemically corked.

Mark Lipton

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
There's also a vintner's website.

Thanks. While reading this site, my eye was drawn to the fact that Stephane's sister, Christine, wrote a history of vignerons in the Gevrey-Chambertin. That book is available at the domaine. I looked for an online excerpt with no luck. However, I did stumble across an interesting (short, but with a bunch of typos) article on how the scourges of oidium and phylloxera caused Burgundy vignerons to reinvent themselves and their industry in the latter part of the 19th century. There are some good pictures and I suppose the footnotes will lead to additional interesting historical reading.

 

[maureen]

Garnet has several of the bottlings at excellent prices (at least compared to what the person who brought the sentiers I tasted paid when she bought them on the west coast). No more Sentiers, however - I got the last few of those 10 days ago or so.

By the way - ignore Keith Levenberg's note on it (or calibrate it to your knowledge of Keith's palate) - others who tasted the same wine with him that night can't figure out what he was tasting.