Winemaker Notes
Domaine Jacques-Frederic Mugnier Nuits-St-Georges Clos de la Marechale Premier Cru is a wine that always needs 5 to 10 years of aging before expressing its typically floral character. The bouquet is remarkable and persistent. One finds the aroma of iris mingled with raspberries. Even more so, that of white lilac.
Professional Ratings
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Jasper Morris
A more vigorous purple. Fresher lively fruit on the nose. Not vastly concentrated but with plenty of raspberry fruit through the middle of the palate covering the bone structure nicely, with even a little tension at the finish. Drink from 2029-2034.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2023 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Clos de la Maréchale is denser and more structured than its Clos des Fourches sibling. Exhibiting notes of cassis, plums, raspberries, spices and petals, it's medium- to full-bodied, with good density and sweet tannins.
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Vinous
The 2023 Nuits Saint-Georges Clos de la Maréchale 1er Cru has a perfumed nose with wild strawberry, light cassis and violet scents that are a little Vosne-like in style. The palate is medium-bodied with quite firm tannins, dark berry fruit laced with cola and black pepper, leading to a classically styled slightly austere finish that will benefit from another 12 months in bottle.
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.”
Inhabiting the bottom end of the northern half of the Côte d’Or, Nuits-St-Georges is a busy, market-driven town and home to many of Burgundy’s negociants. It is also the largest town in the Côte d’Or after Beaune and contributes "nuits" to the name of Côte de Nuits (i.e., the northern half of the Côte d’Or).
The appellation itself is divided into two parts, where in the north it directly borders Vosne-Romanée, the southerly end is the commune of Prémeaux. There are no Grands Crus in this village, though it does have a large number of Premiers Crus.
The best Nuits-St-Georges Pinot Noir are layered with cherry, plum, underbrush and sandalwood. The fruit is sweet, the wine energetic, and the finish long and lush.