2019 Frédéric Magnien Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Borniques

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  3/15/2023 - sid_loves_wine Likes this wine: 93 Points

  First experience with F. Magnien. A beautiful wine but a bit reticent and challenging at this early stage; I have no problem opening super young wines, but this could use a short cellar nap.
  
  Starts off a bit stemmy and rustic on the nose then gradually shows hints of pure wild raspberry/mulberry fruit, some sense of darker ripeness, just very crisp and taut. Maybe some dark floral earthy tones, garden herbs, violets, etc. There's a faint but persistent perfume here that will really blossom with time.
  
  The palate was about the same, a lot of sneaky depth that needs time to become harmonious. Gentle plum and black cherry with a boatload of tannin- very fine-grained but dense and viscous. The acidic presence is unusual, feeling mostly very soft and gentle until the finish where wild raspberry tartness suddenly kicks into gear. The finish is also intensely mineral, that wet stone thing, otherwise difficult to describe.
  
  Engaging and complex, it just feels like it's aching to come out of its shell. I should note that this producer seems to be known for intense new oak usage in the past; that's definitely no longer the case. I think this is a combination of amphorae and old oak, and there's certainly no oak detectable on nose or palate. This felt much closer to a precise, terroir-driven style of burg than anything overtly modernist.

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