2022 Lucien Le Moine Nuits St. Georges 1er Cru Les Terres Blanches

The 2022 Lucien Le Moine Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru “Les Terres Blanches” comes from one of Burgundy’s rare white Premier Cru sites in an appellation that produces about 97% red wine and only roughly 3% white, making examples like this especially distinctive. The climat lies on limestone-rich soils near the forest edge with southern exposure, conditions known to produce some of the appellation’s most prized whites with mineral precision and aromatic finesse. Wines from this site typically show elegant floral and citrus notes that evolve toward white peach and layered complexity with age. Lucien Le Moine itself is an ultra-small Burgundy house founded in 1999 by Mounir and Rotem Saouma, essentially a two-person operation handling everything by hand and working with top terroirs across the Côte d’Or.