Musigny 1999 Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier

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Robert Parker (96)

Mugnier's 1999 Musigny Grand Cru is still a very youthful wine, but a few hours' decant gives a more than adequate sense of its immense quality. A beautiful bouquet of raspberries, black cherry, cocoa powder, violets, peony and incipient notes of rich soil and cedar introduce a pure, full-bodied wine with pitch-perfect balance and a deep, spherical core of ripe tannin, juicy acidity and reserved concentration. This is not an especially flamboyant wine, but it's incredibly authoritative and sophisticated; and in another decade, it will be just irresistible.

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Jancis Robinson (17.50)

Mid-ruby. Thick but this bottle lacked definition with a nose verging on smudgy. Rather under-powered considering this is a Grand Cru. Fruity but without as much obvious structure as I would have expected.