2022 Régis Forey Nuits-St.-Georges (MAGNUM)

For years, this domaine's claim to fame was that they tended the vines and produced the wine of the infamous La Romanée Grand Cru under a métayage agreement dating back to the 1950s between the owners of La Romanée, the Liger-Belair Family, and Regis's father, Jean Forey. In return for working and vinifying the wine, they were paid half the crop. With the arrival of Monsieur Louis-Michel Liger-Belair, the agreement was not renewed after the 2001 vintage and the vines returned to the Liger-Belair family. To make matters more difficult, he was renting cellar space from the family as well. Foreseeing the loss of both vineyards and cellar, Regis created a new winery facility on the outskirts of Vosne-Romanée and here we are today. The Morey-St-Denis is a newer wine as this TINY domaine tries to expand its holdings. The Nuits-St-Georges comes from Regis's mother's family in southern NSG in Prémeaux, so this is a more feral and tannic example of the village. The Vosne-Romanée is fr