Product Description
Lucien Le Moine is a small House of Grands Crus in Beaune.It is a two people operation established in1999: 'we came here because of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, we stayed because we discovered 'La Côte d'Or' and its wines but also the Burgundians as People and Friends.Lucien Le Moine is our way of living the seasons in Burgundy and growing roots deep into that beautiful place where we chose to live.Mounir learned and worked in a Trappist Monastery where he discovered Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. He studied Viticulture and Oenology at the ENSAM Montpellier, than had a 6 years experience in different Wineries in Burgundy, other areas of France and California where he became fascinated by the 'old way' of growing, vinificating and aging wines. One day he decided to push to the extreme everything he saw and experienced and created, with Rotem, a small cellar dedicated to the ideas of purity and typicity.Rotem comes from a cheese making family. She learned Agriculture both at the Technion and the ENESAD in Dijon and oriented her studies towards wine. At the end of her title she won a national prize from the French Academy of Agriculture for a study on the Côte d'Or than she participated in many Harvests in Burgundy and California. She joined Mounir in 1999 and they Started Lucien Le Moine together.Having studied, lived and worked in Burgundy for several years we got to know many good growers in the region. We decided to join these relations and our devotion to quality in a small selected production of Crus.'Lucien Le Moine produces only Grands and Premiers Crus from Côte d'Or. We try to have the Most Beautiful Crus in each Village, we renew our selection every year, depending of our view of the year. That's why we can have 67 Barrels in 2002, 47 in 2003 and 72 in 2004, the only thing we know is that we'll never produce more than 100 Barrels (30 000 bottles), this is the size of the cellar we bought in Beaune and this is the way for us to be able to do everything 'by hand' and 'by ourselves'.Our choice of a small size and of doing everything by ourselves allows us to apply in details our technical perception and to adjust and respond to each vintage and each wine.
