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The artisanal negociant of Lucien Le Moine was founded in 1999 by Mounir Saouma with the sole purpose of “raising” wines selected from the best Premier and Grand Cru vineyards of Burgundy.  In just a few years Maison Lucien Le Moine has gathered astonishing accolades, and Mounir Saouma has become the brightest young star in Burgundy.   

Mounir limits production of his wines, typically working with only one wine per grower. The selected lots arrive, barrel-by-barrel, at the Le Moine cellars in Beaune. Transferred to specially coopered Seguin-Moreau barrels (80% with oak from the tight-grained forest of Jupilles, 20% from Tronçais) for their malolactic fermentation, the wines remain on their lees throughout the aging process. During this period, they are never mechanically pumped but moved only by gravity flow. Each wine is bottled by hand, using gravity, barrel-by-barrel, without fining, filtration, racking or the addition of sulphur.

“They have rapidly become known for producing hand-crafted wines that are made with a minimalist approach.” Burghound
 
“The Lucien Le Moine wines have limited availability but are worth a special search of the marketplace” Stephen Tanzer
 
“This bright, hard-working, extroverted man has created in a few short years one of Burgundy’s finest independent negociant firms” Wine Advocate

“TOP 100 WINERY OF THE YEAR 2006”  Wine & Spirits Magazine
“TOP 100 WINERY OF THE YEAR 2005” Wine & Spirits Magazine
“TOP 100 WINERY OF THE YEAR 2004” Wine & Spirits Magazine