Winemaker Notes
Lumpp has long been celebrated locally for cuvées of fine and fresh Pinot Noir, long on finesse and bright in fruit. The A Vigne Rouge parcel is Lumpp's largest, their flagship that best exemplifies the warm and inviting house style.
Professional Ratings
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Vinous
The 2022 Givry Rouge à Vigne has a lovely nose. There’s real purity of fruit here, showing effervescent red cherries and wild strawberries mixed with rose petals. The palate is medium-bodied and very precise, with silky tannins and a mineral-driven finish that is an utter delight. So much finesse is locked into this Givry. Tasted at merchants' 2022 Burgundy tastings in London.
Barrel Sample: 91-93 -
Jasper Morris
A very dense dark purple with bright rim. A mix of concentrated red fruit and some oak. Darker berries here yet with enough freshness at the finish, which is still very backward. Finer, more gas, greater length, with balanced freshness.
Barrel Sample: 89-92
Thin-skinned, finicky and temperamental, Pinot Noir is also one of the most rewarding grapes to grow and remains a labor of love for some of the greatest vignerons in Burgundy. Fairly adaptable but highly reflective of the environment in which it is grown, Pinot Noir prefers a cool climate and requires low yields to achieve high quality. Outside of France, outstanding examples come from in Oregon, California and throughout specific locations in wine-producing world. Somm Secret—André Tchelistcheff, California’s most influential post-Prohibition winemaker decidedly stayed away from the grape, claiming “God made Cabernet. The Devil made Pinot Noir.”
Noted as the preferred wine of King Henry IV of the late 1500s—though maybe because his mistress came from here!—Givry is a top red wine-producing village in the Côte Chalonnaise.
Its firmly structured reds, made exclusively from Pinot Noir, also boast plenty of blackberry and strawberry fruit with supple tannins that benefit from about two to five years in the bottle. The robust fruit and firmness on the palate in a Givry red begs for dishes such as mixed charcuterie, braised veal, stewed poultry or roasted duck.
Typical Givry whites have a fresh bouquet of lemon, lime, white flower licorice and can benefit and become softer with age.