Domaine Mongeard-Mugneret Vosne-Romanee 1er Cru Les Orveaux 2016 750 ML

The Mongeard family arrived in Vosne-Roman?e in the eighteenth century, and records show a Mongeard working as vigneron for Domaine de la Roman?e-Conti in 1786. In 1945, Jean Mongeard, whose mother was a Mugneret, found himself making wine at the age of 16. His father had died five years before, and there was no one left to do the job. 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.