The Mongeard family arrived in Vosne-Romanée in the eighteenth century, with records showing a Mongeard working as vigneron for Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in 1786. In 1945, Jean Mongeard, whose mother was a Mugneret, found himself making wine at the age of 16 in the place of his father who had died years earlier.
The entire 1945 crop was purchased by Baron le Roy, Marquis d’Angerville, and Henri Gouges. Gouges instructed the young Mongeard to personally bottle the wines, rather than sell in barrel. In 1975, Vincent Mongeard, Jean’s son, began working alongside his father and became responsible for viticulture and vinification of the domaine’s wines. He persuaded his father to return to the traditional method of bottling, without filtration, filtering only with certain vintages.
Jean Mongeard retired in 1995, and Vincent assumed complete leadership of the domaine. Today, Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret covers a total area of more than 75 acres, split among 35 appellations. The varied range of climats in which the Mongeards own vineyards results, naturally, in wines of great diversity.
94 Points Wine Advocate
The 2014 Grands Echézeaux Grand Cru comes from 1.44-hectares of 40- to 68-year-old vine and is matured entirely in new oak. It has a clean, pure and quite intense bouquet with dark plum, raspberry and rose petals scents that are beautifully defined. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin, good depth, a slight earthiness underneath the dark berry fruit mixed with black pepper and sage, fanning out gently towards the sturdy, truffle-tinged finish. Give this several years in the cellar, because it is a very well crafted and sophisticated Grands-Echézeaux.
95+ Points John Gilman
I have loved the Mongeard Grands Echézeaux for about as long as I have been drinking Burgundies, as the ’83 and ’85 vintages of this bottling were amongst the very first grand crus that I ever splurged on back in my early wine merchant days. The family’s vines here are located up towards the very top of the slope, right smack dab in the middle of the vineyard, and range from forty-five to nearly seventy years of age. The 2014 Grands Echézeaux is a stellar wine, offering up a classic nose of black cherries, black plums, cocoa, fresh herb tones, venison, Vosne spices, a marvelous base of soil and spicy new wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and tightly-knit out of the blocks, with a great core of pure black fruit, excellent soil inflection, ripe, suave tannins and a very long, focused and transparent finish.