2018 Jacques-Frederic Mugnier, Musigny Grand Cru 1x150cl

Neal Martin 97

The 2018 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru has a wonderful bouquet, brambly red fruit, sous-bois, just faint touches of iodine. The oak is seamlessly integrated and there is deeply impressive delineation considering the vintage. The palate is medium-bodied and very cohesive, a discrete whole bunch character lending peppery notes that become quite prominent on the mid-palate. Saline and full of character, it melds together beautifully in the glass, the imprimatur of the growing season just molding the finish more than the terroir, yet there is always a spine of mineralite that keeps drawing you back. Tasted blind at the Burgfest 2018 red tasting. [Neal Martin, 22/11/2022]

Anticipated maturity: 2025-2050

vinum 94

Lots of powdered spice notes. A little tanky at first but there’s a distinct note of that. Plump and generous on the palate with red fruit but also some plummier tones. The spice is sustained. Alcohol is warm and makes its presence felt. There’s a succulence and sap to the fruit and also a ginger tone that starts on the nose and is carried through the line. Just a little too broad. [Matthew Hemming, 01/09/2022]

JancisRobinson.com 18++

Some vines planted in the 1940s and others 1958-1963. Barrel sample but already racked and back into barrel.
Deep crimson. Lifted with intense and pure cherry fruit and something almost a little minty/herbal even though it is fully ripe. At the moment the tannins are deeply layered, compact but not resistant. Majestic in its darker underlying power and restraint, with a dark, almost rocky finish that is dry and yet full of energy. Tannins are smooth but chalky because the grain is so fine. Endlessly long. (JH) [26/11/2019]

Anticipated maturity: 2028-2045