Domaine Lucien Muzard

The Muzard wine estate belongs to a very ancient family from Santenay descending from a lineage of wine growers for nine generations (1645). Mr and Mrs Lucien Muzard structured the exploitation in the sixties. Today, their sons, Claude and Hervé cultivate the 16 hectares of the family wine estate, distributed on various climates between Santenay, Chassagne-Montrachet and Pommard. The global production of the wine estate is 95 % of red wines (Pinot Noir) and 5 % of white wines (Chardonnay). All the wines mature in oak barrels, 30 to 40% of which are new, depending on each vintage’s needs. The other barrels are maximum 4 years old. Depending on the vintages, this maturing can last 12 to 18 months. Three months before bottling the wines are racked to permit bottling without filtration. This, according to the producers, ensures the wines to be both good young and when kept several years.

The wines of Santenay typically exhibit distinctly meaty and mineral personalities rather than prominent fruits and berries, and they can tend toward rusticity of tannin, all of which – in addition to their outlying location south of the white wine center of the Cote de Beaune – has contributed to an undeserved degree of neglect. The best wines at this address offer welcome value. It was owned by DRC and story goes in the poor vintage of Romanee Conti, this was added for body.

Lucien Muzard Santenay Champs Claude Vieilles Vignes 2007   Lucien Muzard Santenay 1er Cru Clos Faubard 2007            Lucien Muzard Santenay 1er Cru Clos des Mouches 2007 Lucien Muzard Santenay 1er Cru Clos de Tavannes 2007