Jacques-Frederic Mugnier, Le Musigny 2001 California but also a drought vintage

but also a drought vintage and the vines tended to struggle a bit to fully ripen the fruit (at least in comparison to the perfection of the ’99 growing season)

The wines are put in vats for 15 days to rest quietly before bottling where they are neither fined nor filtered

Purplish color

matured in 40–50% new oak

This is a superb wine

Jacques-Frederic Mugnier, Le Musigny 2001 California but also a drought vintage95 points Burghound A remarkably complex nose offers up a panoply of black fruits, earth, spice, crushed herbs and notes of red and black cherries. The understated, powerful, nicely concentrated and sleek middle weight flavors are quite rich yet finely detailed before culminating in a stupendously long and still moderately firm finish that offers intense minerality. This possesses superb elegance and stunning transparency moreover, it possesses that