When it was suggested we grab a bottle of Musigny each and have lunch I couldn’t say no. These days I rarely post as most of my wine and food experience is for pleasure and catching up with friends, so these notes are brief.
Firstly, some whites to start:
1995 Salon - a serious acid streak running here - not as approachable as the 1996- I would age it a lot longer - ?10 years.
2004 Jadot Chevalier-Montrachet: excellent fruit but had a tad of premox
2011 de Vogüé Borgogne Blanc: young lean and angular. I have stopped buying these after a dreadful run of premox from 2007
2002 Bonneau du Martray Corton-Charlemagne: wet stone and toilet watery – not my style these days
And then the reds:
2008 de Vogüé Musigny: I tried a 2008 de Vogüé Bonnes Mares last weekend and it was so tight and unyielding with such pretty perfume and acid and like the Musigny this is a 10-20 year proposition. The Musigny blossomed over and hour but don’t open one for 5 years at least
2006 de Vogüé Musigny: accessible fruit and perfume with lovely persistence – a favourite
2000 de Vogüé Musigny: I swapped an ’06 musigny for this and it was one of the better showing wines of the day – complex, long – a great 2000
1988 de Vogüé Musigny: I watched my neighbour throw this around and it turned brown. I sipped and it was some balanced and complex, drink now, my favourite of the day
1995 de Vogüé Musigny: deft pretty and almost my favourite
1996 de Vogüé Musigny: I went looking for hulking ’96 tannins and was impressed by the length and intensity – a stronger ’95 in style
1999 de Vogüé Musigny: well, well, well – the ’99 had to be corked dreadfully
2002 Louis Jadot Musigny: pure fruit but just too young and slutty for me and I wonder if they will every develop genuine complexity, but I am being fussy now
2002 J.-F. Mugnier Musigny: good young wine, but lacking complexity
2002 Drouhin Musigny: the lesser quality of the 2002s
Dows 1970 Port- decanted for a few hours , young primary , not too hot.
Musigny deserves the reputation for quality and purity in the hands of great respectful makers. Like a lot of great Burgundy, age has the benefit of complexity and length. Pity I can’t afford to buy as much Musigny as I would like.
highly rated, but I have never had a great b of Mugnier Moose. Overrated IMO. Musigny is great terroir, though, love it. My two top lifetime reds are Vogue Musigny, 29 and 45.
Yeah Ive never understood how Mugnier became a collectable domaine. I personally love the style but super elegant producers like this are usually a bit more niche.
I’ve never had a great bottle of Mugnier Musigny either but those who drink more grandly than I tell me that the wine from 2001 onwards is an entirely different proposition.
A bottle of Vogue 97 last night was very grand but very backward with a massive structure that needs to yield considerably, a wine for the very long term. It has often seemed to me that most Musigny is far closer to the masculinity and size of Bonnes Mares than to the femininity of Amoureuses, contrary to reputation though Drouhin is very much the exception.
Re: Mugnier Moose. Love the '98. More about refinement and elegance vs pure power. Bad analogy I know but it’s a little bit like how La Tache is about power but RC is layered elegance…
I agree completely with this except I haven’t really found Drouhin an exception. But it is certainly true that when a Chambolle mood strikes I would want to reach for a village or 1er cru, not Musigny, even if I could afford to drink Musigny all the time, for exactly this reason.
it’s strange to me that Mugnier is known as a lighter producer - the wines are lightly colored, but fairly intense in flavor. and they are richly textured.