Fixin 2016 - Mongeard-Mugneret

Fixin 2016 - Mongeard-Mugneret

• Surface area of the appellation 102 ha 67 a 59 ca
• Area in production on the estate 1 ha 19 a 84 ca
• Stony ground on clayey limestone soil
• Grape variety 100% Pinot Noir
• Average vine age 40 years
• Hand-picked exclusively, Careful sorting
• 100% destemming 5 to 10% ageing in new oak barrels
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OPERATING MANAGER Vincent MONGEARD

TOTAL OPERATION 30 HECTARES

ANNUAL PRODUCTION 150,000 BOTTLES

AREA OF THE APPELLATION 102ha 67a 59ca

AREA IN PRODUCTION 1ha 82a 51ca

AVERAGE PRODUCTION ON THE ESTATE 55.00hl

STONY SOIL ON CLAY-LIMESTONE

GRAPE VARIETY 100% PINOT NOIR

ALTITUDE 280 METERS

AVERAGE AGE OF THE VINE 55 YEARS

MANUAL HARVESTING EXCLUSIVELY, CAREFUL SORTING

100% DESTEMMING

BREEDING 5 to 10% NEW OAK BARRELS

VILLAGE'S ORIGIN

Fixin and Fixey form a single commune since the imperial decree

of 1860. The village owes its reputation to the "Réveil de

Napoléon" located in the magnificent Noisot Park. This monument

in bronze depicting the resurrection of the Emperor Napoléon was

created by the great Dijon sculptor François Rude and his friend

Noisot, one of the veterans of the Empire campaigns.

Fixin is one of the most beautiful villages on the coast. The top of the

hillsides of Fixey and Fixin is now completely naked. Where

the cultivation of the vines stops and the land starts

quite arid wilderness. Trees can only be found in the Fixin Valley, where

there is a wood of a beautiful vegetation that covers the whole hillside

exposed to the North.

ORIGIN OF THE PLOTS

The commune of Fixin is sheltered from the excesses of the  burgundy climate:

it benefits from such a favourable mesoclimate that the

oldest winemakers remember only one devastating

hailstorm.

- The lieux-dits of our village appellations on the commune of

Fixin are "Aux Crais", "Petits Crais" (land register of 1828) and "en

Crechelin". The toponym "crai" (stony ground) in the masculine form

meant a cultivated area where the subsoil formed by an

agglomeration of rolled pebbles laid on a clay layer

is the product of the alluvium that filled in during the Ice Age,

the whole Saône valley. The vine thrives in this land,

when the "crai" is covered with a fairly thick layer of humus.

CHARACTER OF THE WINES

Fixin is a delicately colored wine, which surprises by its

structure most often tannic in nature and is thus more characterized

by robustness than by finesse. Gifted with a

good acidity, it has a solidity and a certain matter that

puts it in the wines of medium ageing capacity. Young, its aromas are

bestial, even wild, fur, musk. It is a rich wine that

has a bouquet that blooms with age.

STORAGE AND SERVICE

The Fixin is a classic of Burgundy: a steady and slow

evolution, because of their tannic note, makes it a wine that you can

expect to consume around 4 to 6 years of age for the more supple years

and keep up to 8 years for great vintages.

You can accompany it with traditional gastronomic

Burgundian cuisine: coq au vin, daube, boeuf

bourguignon, stew for older wines, and classic

cheeses.