Lucien Le Moine
About Lucien Le Moine
Founded in 1999 by Mounir and Rotem Saouma, Lucien Le Moine is an expression of the Burgundian drive to lovingly craft only the very best wines from the very best terroirs, regardless of any external factors. These are wines of truly relentless excellence.
The concerted aim of this house is to produce no more than 100 barrels of 1er and Grand Cru wine each vintage, varying from year to year as Mounir samples each vineyard before deciding which meet his lofty standards. Often only securing a single barrel per vineyard, their 100 barrel release in 2017, for example, covered 68 different wines.
The Winemaking
Lucien Le Moine has no running contracts with growers (although they will often source grapes repeatedly from the best), and they have no prerequisites with regards to how the vines were managed. Fascinatingly, this producer is not a winemaker, as such, as they purchase wines after fermentation. Instead, the art for which Mounir and Rotem Saouma have become so revered is the élevage - the process of ageing, filtration, racking etc. in their facility in Beaune.
Given their focus on post-fermentation processes, they work very closely with one specific barrel supplier, who sources the very finest wood from the great forests of France and wider Europe. Such is their care and determination, that each individual barrel is composed and toasted slightly differently to match and season each specific wine - attention to detail and artisanal craft reaches its apogee at Lucien Le Moine.
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Burgundy | 2 | 93-95 (VN) |
Inc. TAX
€630.85 |
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Vinous (93-95)Good deep red. Red fruits, dried rose, graphite and spicy oak on the nose. Wonderfully fine-grained, seamless and sweet, combining outstanding fullness with an uncanny weightlessness. Extremely fine-grained and subtle, with some apparent oak spice in the middle palate. Best today on the explosive, broad aftertaste, which saturates the palate with perfume and leaves the salivary glands quivering. |
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Burgundy | 2 | - |
Inc. TAX
€977.27 |
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Burgundy | 3 | 93-94 (WA) |
Inc. TAX
€520.51 |
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Wine Advocate (93-94)The 2 barrels of Le Moine 2007 Vosne-Romanee Les Suchots lead with high-toned cassis and distilled sloe berry aromas, along with brown spices and musky peony, narcissus, and animal scents. In the mouth this is as exotic if not downright erotic a set of flavors as the nose intimates, allied to a primary juiciness of tart-edged black fruits and a refinement of tannins that lead to an invigorating, intriguing, and positively refreshing finish. This should make for a wild and exciting ride over the next ten or a dozen years. |
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Burgundy | 2 | 93-95 (VN) |
In Bond
€522.00 |
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Vinous (93-95)Good deep red. Red fruits, dried rose, graphite and spicy oak on the nose. Wonderfully fine-grained, seamless and sweet, combining outstanding fullness with an uncanny weightlessness. Extremely fine-grained and subtle, with some apparent oak spice in the middle palate. Best today on the explosive, broad aftertaste, which saturates the palate with perfume and leaves the salivary glands quivering. |
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Burgundy | 2 | - |
In Bond
€792.00 |
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Burgundy | 3 | 93-94 (WA) |
In Bond
€430.00 |
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Wine Advocate (93-94)The 2 barrels of Le Moine 2007 Vosne-Romanee Les Suchots lead with high-toned cassis and distilled sloe berry aromas, along with brown spices and musky peony, narcissus, and animal scents. In the mouth this is as exotic if not downright erotic a set of flavors as the nose intimates, allied to a primary juiciness of tart-edged black fruits and a refinement of tannins that lead to an invigorating, intriguing, and positively refreshing finish. This should make for a wild and exciting ride over the next ten or a dozen years. |