{"title":"Lucien Le Moine","description":"\u003cp\u003eLucien Le Moine is a Burgundy négociant house founded by Mounir and Rotem Saouma in Beaune. Rather than owning an extensive vineyard estate, the house selects small quantities of wines from notable Burgundy appellations and focuses on careful élevage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, Lucien Le Moine explores Burgundy's varied vineyard sites through extended barrel aging and attentive cellar work. Its approach emphasizes the identity of each appellation and vintage rather than a uniform house style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resulting wines range from expressive regional Burgundy to concentrated and layered grand cru bottlings. For Burgundy enthusiasts, Lucien Le Moine offers a distinctive interpretation of place, texture and maturation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"lucien-le-moine-chevalier-montrachet-grand-cru-2015-burgundy-france","title":"Lucien Le Moine – Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 2015 – Burgundy France","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\nChevalier-Montrachet sits directly above Le Montrachet on the hill, higher, cooler and on thinner stone — the most mineral and finely drawn of the five Montrachet Grands Crus. In the hands of Lucien Le Moine, the Beaune micro-négociant obsessed with élevage, it becomes a wine of extraordinary tension and length.\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🍷 At a Glance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eGrape:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100% Chardonnay\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eAppellation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru, Puligny-Montrachet\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Côte de Beaune, Burgundy\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eVintage:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2015\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lucien Le Moine\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eWinemakers:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mounir Saouma and Rotem Brakin\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eAltitude:\u003c\/strong\u003e around 265–300 m\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eSoil:\u003c\/strong\u003e Thin stony rendzinas over Jurassic marl and marly limestone; at the top of the slope roughly 20% clay to 80% pebbles\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eVineyard:\u003c\/strong\u003e Barely 7.4 hectares in total, one of only two Grands Crus lying entirely within Puligny-Montrachet\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eÉlevage:\u003c\/strong\u003e Long ageing on full lees in old oak with little or no new wood, malolactic deliberately delayed, no racking until bottling, bottled without fining or filtration\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eServing temperature:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12–14°C\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eStyle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dry white wine\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e👃 Tasting Notes \u0026amp; Experience\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eColor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pale lemon-gold\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eNose:\u003c\/strong\u003e Citrus zest, white flowers, crushed rock and wet limestone\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003ePalate:\u003c\/strong\u003e Concentrated and penetrating, with the lees-derived breadth Le Moine is known for\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eStructure:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cutting acidity carrying real extract and density\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eFinish:\u003c\/strong\u003e Long, saline and mineral\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nLucien Le Moine works differently from a domaine: Mounir Saouma and Rotem Brakin buy finished must from growers they trust and then do the thing almost nobody else prioritises — the raising. Wines sit on their full lees in old barrels in cold cellars, malolactic is put off as long as possible, and nothing is racked until it goes into bottle. The house is capped at roughly 100 barrels a year across all its cuvées, and some crus amount to a single barrel. The name is personal: Mounir means light in Arabic, Lucien is its French equivalent, and Le Moine — the monk — nods to the Trappist monastery in the Middle East where he first learned to make wine.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e❤️ Why We Love It\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n• The most precise and mineral of the Montrachet Grands Crus, from a vineyard of barely 7.4 hectares\u003cbr\u003e\n• A house that treats élevage as the whole craft — full lees, old oak, no racking, no filtration\u003cbr\u003e\n• Genuinely tiny production, and five bottles is all we have\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🍽️ Food Pairing Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n• Turbot or sole in butter sauce\u003cbr\u003e\n• Lobster, langoustine and scallops\u003cbr\u003e\n• Poached chicken with cream, or aged Comté\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e👤 Who This Wine Is For\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n✓ Collectors of top-tier white Burgundy who want the leaner, higher, stonier side of the Montrachet hill\u003cbr\u003e\n✓ Drinkers who prize texture and length over obvious oak\u003cbr\u003e\n✕ Not ideal if you like rich, buttery, overtly oaky Chardonnay\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucien Le Moine","offers":[{"title":"750ml \/ 1 bottle","offer_id":48081535860788,"sku":"COL-MOINE-Chevalier-15","price":1290.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"750ml \/ 5 bottles","offer_id":48081535828020,"sku":"COL-MOINE-Chevalier-15-5PK","price":6430.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1739\/2436\/files\/lucien-le-moine-chevalier-montrachet-grand-cru-2015-burgundy-france-l-audit-2000.jpg?v=1791437557"},{"product_id":"lucien-le-moine-bourgogne-rouge-2015-burgundy-france","title":"Lucien Le Moine – Bourgogne Rouge 2015 – Burgundy France","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\nLucien Le Moine exists to make grand cru: around a hundred barrels a year, one to three per vineyard, from some of the most coveted sites in the Côte d'Or. The Bourgogne Rouge is the rare bottle that lets you taste that cellar's methods without the grand cru price.\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🍷 At a Glance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eGrape:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100% Pinot Noir\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eAppellation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bourgogne\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Côte d'Or, Burgundy\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eVintage:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2015\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lucien Le Moine\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eWinemaker:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mounir Saouma\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eHouse:\u003c\/strong\u003e A two-person micro-négociant in Beaune, founded 1999, capped at roughly 100 barrels a year across as many as fifty different crus\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eÉlevage:\u003c\/strong\u003e Long ageing on full fine lees with no racking, no fining and no filtration; malolactic deliberately delayed so the wine is protected by its own carbon dioxide rather than added sulphur\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eBottling:\u003c\/strong\u003e By gravity\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eServing temperature:\u003c\/strong\u003e 15–17°C\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eStyle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dry red wine\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e👃 Tasting Notes \u0026amp; Experience\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eColor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bright, medium ruby\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eNose:\u003c\/strong\u003e Red fruit with the depth and savour long lees ageing brings\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003ePalate:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fuller and more textured than most Bourgogne Rouge, thanks to the élevage\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eStructure:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine tannins with fresh acidity\u003cbr\u003e\n• \u003cstrong\u003eFinish:\u003c\/strong\u003e Long for its appellation\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nMounir Saouma learned to make wine in the vineyards of a Trappist monastery in the Middle East in the late 1980s, then studied oenology at Montpellier and spent six years working in Burgundy, elsewhere in France and in California. The house name is personal rather than historical: Mounir means light in Arabic, of which Lucien is the French equivalent, and Le Moine — the monk — refers to those monastery years. He and Rotem Brakin founded the business in 1999 and still run it between the two of them, buying finished must from growers they know and raising it with almost no intervention. Critics sometimes call the approach modernist; Saouma's own view is that leaving wine on its lees without racking is as traditional as Burgundy gets. 2015 was a warm, generous vintage that gave real substance even at regional level.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e❤️ Why We Love It\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n• The same hands and the same cellar discipline as the grand crus\u003cbr\u003e\n• From a house that makes only about 30,000 bottles a year in total\u003cbr\u003e\n• A generous vintage, at regional-wine money\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🍽️ Food Pairing Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n• Roast chicken, duck and charcuterie\u003cbr\u003e\n• Mushroom dishes and root vegetables\u003cbr\u003e\n• Soft and semi-hard cheeses\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top:40px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e👤 Who This Wine Is For\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n✓ Anyone curious about Lucien Le Moine without committing to a grand cru\u003cbr\u003e\n✓ Drinkers who like texture and lees character in their Pinot Noir\u003cbr\u003e\n✕ Not ideal if you want a light, simple everyday Burgundy\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucien Le Moine","offers":[{"title":"750ml \/ 3 bottles","offer_id":48104063369268,"sku":"COL-MOINE-ROUGE-15-3PK","price":342.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"750ml \/ 1 bottle","offer_id":48211476676660,"sku":"COL-MOINE-ROUGE-15","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1739\/2436\/files\/lucien-le-moine-bourgogne-rouge-2015-burgundy-france-l-audit-2000.jpg?v=1791437561"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1739\/2436\/collections\/lucien-le-moine-cellar-hero.jpg?v=1791563739","url":"https:\/\/www.inbodega.com\/collections\/lucien-le-moine.oembed","provider":"InBodega","version":"1.0","type":"link"}