Lucien Le Moine
About Lucien Le Moine
Founded in 1999 by Mounir and Rotem Saouma, Lucien Le Moine is an expression of the Burgundian drive to lovingly craft only the very best wines from the very best terroirs, regardless of any external factors. These are wines of truly relentless excellence.
The concerted aim of this house is to produce no more than 100 barrels of 1er and Grand Cru wine each vintage, varying from year to year as Mounir samples each vineyard before deciding which meet his lofty standards. Often only securing a single barrel per vineyard, their 100 barrel release in 2017, for example, covered 68 different wines.
The Winemaking
Lucien Le Moine has no running contracts with growers (although they will often source grapes repeatedly from the best), and they have no prerequisites with regards to how the vines were managed. Fascinatingly, this producer is not a winemaker, as such, as they purchase wines after fermentation. Instead, the art for which Mounir and Rotem Saouma have become so revered is the élevage - the process of ageing, filtration, racking etc. in their facility in Beaune.
Given their focus on post-fermentation processes, they work very closely with one specific barrel supplier, who sources the very finest wood from the great forests of France and wider Europe. Such is their care and determination, that each individual barrel is composed and toasted slightly differently to match and season each specific wine - attention to detail and artisanal craft reaches its apogee at Lucien Le Moine.
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$15,375.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$18,320.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$16,925.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 5 | - | HK$2,845.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$7,805.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 3 | 94-96 (VN) | HK$42,665.00 | |||||
Vinous (94-96)The 2011 Corton-Charlemagne is drop-dead gorgeous. Subtle, nuanced and very pretty, the 2011 is all about understatement and reserve. The aromas and flavors show off striking inner perfume and impeccable balance. This is a great showing from an utterly beautiful wine with a bright future, but it is also a wine that demand's the taster's full attention. |
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Burgundy | 2 | 94-96 (VN) | HK$95,305.00 | |||||
Vinous (94-96)The 2011 Corton-Charlemagne is drop-dead gorgeous. Subtle, nuanced and very pretty, the 2011 is all about understatement and reserve. The aromas and flavors show off striking inner perfume and impeccable balance. This is a great showing from an utterly beautiful wine with a bright future, but it is also a wine that demand's the taster's full attention. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 94+ (WA) | HK$15,870.00 | |||||
Wine Advocate (94+)The 2016 Echézeaux Grand Cru wafts from the glass with a deep bouquet of smoked meats, cassis, blackberries, incense and rich soil tones. On the palate, it's full-bodied, velvety and enveloping, with rich but supple tannins, a deep and concentrated core of fruit, lively acids and a long, thrillingly carnal finish. This is a beautifully made Echézeaux from this challenging frost vintage. |
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$27,360.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$9,050.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$9,410.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$9,975.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | 93-96 (VN) | HK$23,305.00 | |||||
Vinous (93-96)Bright ruby-red. Very wild, leesy, utterly distinctive nose offers scents of purple fruits and spices complicated by apricot and almond nuances. Wonderfully spicy, fine-grained, idiosyncratic wine with dark berry and rosemary flavors complicated by faint lactic and malic nuances (this is just at the end of its secondary fermentation). Suave, deep wine with an almost oily aftertaste. This should be a knockout. For his part, Saouma describes it as fake gentle today. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 93-95 (VN) | HK$19,835.00 | |||||
Vinous (93-95)(the crop level here was barely 15 hectoliters per hectare, according to Saouma): Full, bright ruby. Higher-toned and considerably more expressive on the nose than the Echézeaux, offering aromas of black raspberry, licorice and violet along with suggestions of more exotic ripeness. Densely packed and seriously concentrated, but a bit youthfully imploded owing to its crushed-rock minerality; conveys a strong impression of dry extract but little early sweetness. As young as this wine is, it's much more harmonious today than the Echézeaux. Finishes very long, with serious but fine-grained tannins. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 91-93 (BH) | HK$20,830.00 | |||||
Burghound (91-93)An overtly floral and well-layered nose is elegant, airy and pure with plenty of spice elements adding breadth to the super-fresh essence of red currant aromas that are trimmed in discreet oak nuances. There is notably more size, weight and power to the tautly muscular flavors that culminate in a serious, robust and lingering finish. This is not a monster of concentration but I like the balance and overall sense of harmony. |
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$17,715.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$14,335.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | 92-95 (BH) | HK$16,200.00 | |||||
Burghound (92-95)A highly restrained and ultra-pure nose reflects notes of the essence of both red and dark currant, forest floor and a more discreet whiff of the sauvage. The mouthfeel is unusually rich for young Latricières though there is ample minerality adding a sense of lift to the impressively persistent, markedly firm, austere and w |
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Burgundy | 1 | 93-95 (BH) | HK$24,795.00 | |||||
Burghound (93-95)(Don't Miss!) There is enough reduction to mask the fruit but not the sauvage elements Mazis is famous for. There is a bit more size, weight and power to the big-bodied flavors that brim with both minerality and dry extract, all wrapped in a dusty, mouth coating and tightly wound finish that is austere but not rustic. Once again ample patience will be required as this is very clearly built-to-age. |
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Burgundy | 2 | 91-94 (BH) | HK$16,860.00 | |||||
Burghound (91-94)Prominent spice nuances add breadth to the distinctly earthy and sauvage-inflected deeply pitched nose of red and dark currant, poached plum and leather. The succulent but muscular medium-bodied plus flavors possess plenty of minerality and even better depth and persistence on the attractively balanced if very firm finish. |
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Burgundy | 3 | - | HK$4,420.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$21,665.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$9,350.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$6,530.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 3 | 91-93 (BH) | HK$6,500.00 | |||||
Burghound (91-93)A ripe yet cool nose reflects notes of black raspberry, poached plum and a lovely violet top note. There is very good volume to the caressing yet muscular medium-bodied flavors that deliver fine length and even better depth. This should be excellent in time. |
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$6,240.00 | |||||
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Burgundy | 1 | 92-94 (VN) | HK$7,845.00 | |||||
Vinous (92-94)(destemmed): Bright, full ruby. Deep, almost liqueur-like aromas of cassis and black cherry; there's something old school about this. Hugely concentrated and mouthfilling, with its very ripe flavors of cassis, blackberry, dark chocolate and violet complicated by saline minerality. Finishes dense, saline, floral and very long, with big but utterly smooth tannins that reach the incisors. This is a major mouthful of wine already but it will need time to lose some baby fat. With its slightly high-toned character and impression of fat, this wine struck me as rather 2015-like. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 92-94 (BH) | HK$6,270.00 | |||||
Burghound (92-94)Notably ripe yet nicely fresh and even cool aromas of poached plum and dark berry fruit coulis are trimmed in hints of earth and the sauvage. The palate impression of the big-bodied and powerful flavors is one of contrasts as the mid-palate is actually nicely refined if dense whereas the wonderfully persistent finish is robust, muscular and borderline rustic, as well as exceptionally firm. Once again, I would recommend not touching a bottle for at least a decade and this beauty should repay almost two. |
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Burgundy | 1 | 89-91 (VN) | HK$6,980.00 | |||||
Vinous (89-91)Moderately saturated medium red. Musky aromas of redcurrant, coffee and pepper. Red berry and spice flavors are complemented by subtle earthy nuances, with harmonious acidity giving the wine a juicy quality. Finishes with lovely lift and sneaky thrust. |
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Burgundy | 1 | - | HK$7,715.00 | |||||