TN: 2004 Domaine Dujac Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Monts-Luisants

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  • 2004 Domaine Dujac Morey St. Denis 1er Cru Monts-Luisants - France, Burgundy, Côte de Nuits, Morey St. Denis 1er Cru (8/24/2011)
    This needed time to open, and also best when it got to cellar temp from the fridge. Nice golden yellow, green tinge color. Cool sea breeze air, lemons and honey, dusty limestone quarry, spiced green apple nose. Creamy in the mouth, yet has the '04 cut to it! Not really bursting with flavors…more subtle…but kind of nice, to the super structured feel! Lemons, melons, spiced apple, honey butter, chalky minerals, white florals…I dig this Duj! (93 pts.)

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So…no Grand Cru white for Dujac?? Why?

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Another bottle tonight…a little sulfury at first, but pretty similar to the first bottle.

Is this 100% Chardonnay? I think I read somewhere this is blended with Pinot Blanc??

Any fans of Cote de Nuits whites? If so…your favs?

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Brian…Les Monts-Luisants is a liex-dite in Morris St. Denis where it has land in G-cru, 1ieme and also village. Guess we all know in CdNuit…there is only 1 G-cru white - which is Musigny-Blanc.


So…no Grand Cru white for Dujac?? Why?

Each G-crus has there own right and hence as I understnad …under the AOC laws…there is no white G-crus within Morey St. Denis.

Les Monts-Luisants ir poor and rocky, with very little surface soil which give wine with a good acidtity; but since 1960, the land has been re-planted with lots of Pinot-Noir.



Is this 100% Chardonnay? I think I read somewhere this is blended with Pinot Blanc??

Doubtful…it needs to be 100% Chardonnay. One needs to really check the text of the AOC Laws.




Any fans of Cote de Nuits whites? If so…your favs?

Hmmm…I am not a fan of CdNuits whites. The reason is : I am a fan of CdBeaue whites. [pillow-fight.gif]

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Thanks Peter. I was just wondering why Dujac doesn’t have any holdings, or purchase any GC white? With such a prestigious portfolio of GC red…you would think they would want to dabble a little with whites?

It was Pinot Gris that I had heard of…not necessarily in the Dujac…but have heard it being added in some Nuits whites, for added palate breadth and earthy richness.

Have you had Vogue Musigny Blanc?

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Hi Brian,

The Domaine Dujac Monts Luisants is 100% chardonnay, though this is also the same vineyard where Domaine Ponsot still producers their very old vine bottling from Aligote. I would hazard a guess that the Seysses family really has no desire to make another Cote de Beaune white (they used to produce both a Meursault and a Pulginy AC bottling which they sold under the Druid label), as it would be a long way each day to look after the vines. As the domaine is now biodynamique, I cannot imagine that they would want to buy grapes, so they would be forced to make the commute every day from Morey down to wherever they got vines for a white Cote de Beaune. They gave up their parcel of vines in the Nuits St. Georges vineyard of Aux Thorey because of concerns of how spread out they were getting already- and it is still a fair poke down to Chevalier-Montrachet from Nuits! A Corton-Charlemagne might make a bit more sense, as it would be closer (and a Dujac Corton Charlie would be a lot of fun!), but I suspect that they will be perfectly content to keep making their stunning array of red Burgs and their very good Morey blanc bottlings. Besides, Jeremy Seysses loves riesling and that would be a seriously tough sell to the INAO in a parcel of Pulgny “en friche”!

All the Best,

John

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Thanks for posting…John.


Have you had Vogue Musigny Blanc?

Hi …Brian. Yes - some very old bottles. The last one was from vintage 1991 and the bottle No. was …00003.

I am not a fun of Vogue Musigny Blanc. I drunk it as a curiosity…

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As you have mentioned the Ponsot Monts Luisants wine is 100% Aligote – and has been since 2004. A Premier Cru Monopole of Domaine Ponsot [Clos des Monts Luisants] it also had Chardonnay in it from the 50s up to and including 2004 and before that, up to 1992 from some time in the late 30s/early 40s, also included the white Pinot clone, Pinot Gouges, which Laurent Ponsot’s grandfather had been given by Monsieur Gouges and had planted on the site.
AFAIK it is the only authorised Burgundy 1er cru made from Aligote since the time of its AOC classification in 1935 – and since then from a blend, which was always mainly old vine Aligote replanted post-phylloxera by William Ponsot in 1911, until it became 100% Aligote again in 2005.

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Nigel…merci [thankyou.gif]

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Brian…Les Monts-Luisants is a liex-dite in Morris St. Denis where it has land in G-cru, 1ieme and also village. Guess we all know in CdNuit…there is only 1 G-cru white - which is Musigny-Blanc.

Thread drift … and for those who are new to Burgundy :

Musigny is in the village of Chambolle-Musigny. As a G-cru it has his own right ( an AOC Laws of its own ) and it is allowed to be red or white.

Strangely AOC Chabolle-Musingy ( with two classifications : 1ieme cru and village ) is allowed to be only red.

Hence when Vogue decided to bottle their declassied young juice from the AOC Musigny, it could only be lablled as generic Bougonge Blanc.