Red Wine: 2002 | Dominique Laurent | Mazis-ChambertinVery bright, minty, high-toned nose with crunchy berry fruit and just a little animal edge showing through.Order from the Largest & Most Trusted Premium Spirits Marketplace!Featured inROLLING STONEMEN'S JOURNALUS WEEKLYNOTICE: Many other small liquor store sites may end up cancelling your order due to the high demand, unavailability or inaccurate inventory counts. We have partnerships consisting of a large network of licensed retailers from within the United States, Europe and across the world ensuring orders are fulfilled. Producer: Dominique LaurentVintage: 2002Size:750mlABV:13.5%Varietal:Pinot NoirCountry/Region: France, ChampagneDetailed DescriptionVery bright, minty, high-toned nose with crunchy berry fruit and just a little animal edge showing through. Very dry and tannic on the palate with plenty of oak and a very structured, almost austere character.Producer InformationDominique Laurent is a small-scale but high-quality n??gociant based in Nuits-Saint-Georges. The portfolio is based on very small parcels of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay vines in dozens of appellations across the Cte de Nuits and Cte de Beaune. Quantities of individual wines are often tiny, with some wines produced in a single barrique, realizing just 300 bottles. The first vintage was in 1988 and Laurent soon after earnt a reputation for using 200-percent new oak, a process which involves racking wine out of one new barrel for further aging in a second new barrel. Early labels read "Dom. Laurent"; a deliberately ambiguous ploy, given the owners first name and the fact that the operation was not a domaine, since no vineyards were owned. Now wines from bought grapes are labelled as Dominique Laurent, while Domaine Laurent P??re et Fils wines are made from nine hectares (22 acres) of estate vines, including plots in Meursault Poruzots and Nuits-Saint-Georges. In 1994, Dominique Laurent joined forces with Michel Tardieu to create the Rhne Valley n??gociant business Tardieu-Laurent. This is now managed solely by the latter.