2007 Musigny, Grand Cru, Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier, Burgundy

So bright, very vital crimson. Still quite closed like Ponsot's and de Vogüé's) on the nose but lovely succulent fruit on the palate. Bitter cherry flavours and crunchy taffeta texture - though not much perfume at just over a year old. Not massive but a wonderful texture - this should certainly get there in the end. The fruit positively soars already. Extremely fine tannins.

A restrained, airy, clean, bright and beautifully layered nose features red pinot, violets, spice and mineral notes that complement perfectly the seductively textured medium full flavors that display a taut muscularity and superb focus on the refined and firmly structured finish. I particularly like the intensity and drive and this should reward about a decade of patient cellaring. A Musigny of harmony and grace.

Bright, deep red. Knockout aromas and flavours of black cherry, black raspberry, crushed stone and smoky minerality. Wonderfully deep, tangy and sweet, with a captivating creamy texture, making this deceptively tastable today. Impressive today for its volume, and finishes very long, broad and classically dry, with substantial fine-grained tannins. As delicious as this is right now, its overall balance suggests it will reward a decade of ageing. For his part, Mugnier says that virtually every vintage of his Musigny needs ten years in the bottle.

Drink 2024 - 2034

Mugniers wines of the vintage, his 2007 Musigny exudes ripe, vanilla- and star anise-tinged black raspberry and cassis, underlain by clean, marrow-like meatiness. Already satiny in texture, yet buoyant, this finishes with dark-fruited, forest floor-inflected, palate-staining persistence yet a soothing, enveloping personality that is anything but palate-straining. Even though this is an unusually approachable example of its kind, few Burgundian Pinots of its vintage, I suspect, will justify the 15 or more years of glory that I would anticipate from this Musigny.

No exceptional depth of colour, a light touch from Frederic this year. The bouquet has bacon notes indicating reduction. Like the other better wines, the bouquet grows rapidly in the glass. These reductive notes continue on the palate just taking the edge off another wise beautiful wine. Sweet pure cherry and raspberry fruit lingers, and as time went by the wine became steadily purer.