1996 | Mugnier | Musigny

Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier’s 1996 Musigny was also showing beautifully at our tasting. The bouquet is excellent, offering up a vibrant blend of red and black cherries, woodsmoke, dark soil tones, mustard seed, gamebird and a nice touch of vanillin oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied, focused and plenty deep at the core, with superb soil inflection, lovely focus and grip, fine-grained, moderate tannins and a long, tangy and complex finish. This is really starting to show well today, but I would be inclined to let it rest just a bit longer in the cellar and let more layers of complexity emerge and a bit more of the tannin fall away.

Reviews:

• Burghound: The nose is elegance personified with beautifully transparent and mature aromatics of cool and high-toned notes of cherries, black berries and spice. The middleweight flavors lack a bit of mid-palate density even though they dance across the palate, offering wonderful complexity while the backend does not lean out excessively in the fashion of many '96s. Overall, this is a wine of finesse, silk and lace with a sweet and long finish that allows this to be drinking perfectly well now. Consistent notes as I have never had a poor bottle. I would note that this should continue to hold for at least another decade.

Producer Information

Domaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier is a Burgundian wine producer based in Chambolle-Musigny. It is particularly well-known for its Musigny Grand Cru wine which is regarded as a benchmark for that vineyard. While the estate is most closely associated with Pinot Noir wines from Chambolle-Musigny, it has 10 hectares (25 acres) of vineyards in Nuits-Saint-Georges as well.The Château de Chambolle-Musigny has been owned by the Mugnier family since 1863. From 1950, as there was no winemaker in the family, the vineyards were contracted out to Faiveley and Bruno Clair, with the latter selling the wine in bulk. Between 1985 and 2004, Frédéric Mugnier was able to take back the vineyards as leases expired.On top of the Musigny Grand Cru, Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier makes a wine from the Bonnes-Mares Grand Cru vineyard, as well as two premier cru wines, Les Fuées and Les Amoureuses, and a village-level wine. From the Nuits-Saint-Georges holdings, Mugnier makes a Clos des Fourches premier cru wine, and a red and a white premier cru from the Clos de la Maréchale vineyard, which is a monopole of the domaine.

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