Jacques-Frederic Mugnier, Le Musigny 2001 California with ripe tannin

with ripe tannin

as well as a huge aroma of smoky cassis

It's full-bodied

Purplish color

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)

Jacques-Frederic Mugnier, Le Musigny 2001 California with ripe tannin95 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