December 10, 2023 - The ‘93 Musigny was a mind blowing wine and it is one of those rare instances where it feels like you’ve caught a wine at exactly the perfect stage in its evolution. Well stored bottles could likely hang on for decades, but there is no reason to wait.
The nose was intensely perfumed, with dark red to black berry fruit, black truffle, lead, orange peel, and sweet violet and rose floral tones. On the palate, the wine is medium in body and perfectly smooth from beginning to end, the tannins perfectly integrated but the wine remains vibrant. There is an incredible inner sweetness. Sweet, redder fruit tones, earth, minerality, and rose and violet tones sweep across the palate like silk, with notes of earth and the floral tones lingering on the long finish.
June 30, 2021 - At a dinner full of great burgundies, the Musigny flight stood out way above the others, which included a flight of Dujac Clos de la Roche and and a flight of Vosne Malconsorts. The Musigny flight included the 93 and 99 Jadot, the 02 Drouhin and the 02 Vougeraie. These were all terrific and easily deserving of the grand cru title. If not at quite the level of the best bottles from the likes of Mugnier and Roumier, these four wines were all fabulous and priced slightly below the stratosphere. What was impressive were the similarities between the four wines. The terroir really stood out and was unmistakable. Of these, the 93 Jadot was the most developed and possibly the most impressive, showing more secondary flavors of musk and fur and mushroom and cinnamon. The Vougeraie was delicious and the most elegant of the bunch with a slightly more linear quality but still unmistakably Musigny. The 99 Jadot and 02 Drouhin were both delicious and impressive if not quite at the level of the other two. Overall, it was a treat for those in attendance to have four such terrific wines, all showing well (don't ask me about the corked 02 Vogue Mus) and all representative of this outstanding vineyard.
May 22, 2021 - Youthful appearance with modest legs. Crystal clear. Powerful nose of berries and hints of cinnamon and spices. Great finish with ample longevity in the glass. Fantastic post pandemic wine!
March 15, 2021 - Deep and complex. Iron, rubber, balanced acid, fruit and power. Keeps on going and going. Amazingly fresh and tasty. Generously shared by a member of the Atlanta Tastevin
February 14, 2021 - Fully grand cru, demanding, not a beginner's burg. Still young at 28 years in bottle. Just beginning to show all it has packed inside. Took 3 hours to begin to open. Then, very complex, alluring, detailed, layers of spices, tannins, spinning spheres of inter-linked flavors. Camphor, sandalwood, star anise, dry griotte, rust, steel, earth...alluring, a bit overwhelming, still just opening. To my mind, a truly great wine. It seems at first closed, a bit dumb, kinda simple and one asks "is this really Musigny?" And then, at about 3 hours, this thing starts to move, grow, erupt, demand...and you look at your wine glass and wonder what the hell is going on, and is it legal? What life form is this? All of a sudden odors, wafts of flavor, odd oriental spices rise from the table. How? What is their origin? This mere pale red glass of "wine"? Then all hell breaks loose and the animal that calls itself Musigny begins to stretch, lick its fur, and gaze at you with leopard eyes, knowing it is far far far your superior, and like most mere mortal grape juice guzzlers, you won't even begin to comprehend it. So it unfurls itself, as all geniuses do, for itself, at its own pace and leisure.....and you...a mere "wine drinker" seek to somehow keep up and sip and sniff, and hope to comprehend about 10 per cent of the mad beauty that is now erupting from the glass. Yes, again I wax poetic. But wine and especially burg, at this level, is not just numbers and data. It's a very special sensory, emotional, even.....dare i say this?- spiritual-- experience. It is hard to believe that the fermented juice of a grape can "do" this. But it can. This is not a Vogue or Mugnier Musigny...but it is in my humble view, great in a different way. More lithe, ethereal, not obviously pleasing, yet then, utterly pleasing.....though it will demand that you are able to follow the verse it is speaking. I've been drinking serious burgs for 50 years and I felt almost "not up to the level" of this Jadot Musigny. Very serious, deep, multi-layered wine that speaks on many levels. To me, poetically and viscerally beautiful. Still young. Probably will last decades, properly stored, and only just-maturing now. Would love to try it in 2050...but likely won't be around then to have that pleasure. But this wine will still be dancing, and i hope someone is lucky enough to have a bottle and be touched by what it says. i will say it again....buy all the DRC, Mugnier, Lafon, Raveneau, Vogue...etc etc etc....that you want. And you should, if you have the rubles, as they are great. But Jadot is right up there with the very best in burg, often at a much more accessible price, and this Musigny is a shining example of that. And much else as well.
September 9, 2020 - A fun gathering at L'Auberge Chez Francois (L'Auberge Chez Francois, Great Falls, VA): Very youthful nose displaying perfectly ripe black fruit blackberry, black cherry, a hint of rose, caramel, a hint of sous bois, black truffle, dark spices and earth. Excellent concentration, layers upon layers of concentrated black fruit, silky and beautifully detailed, perfect amount of acidity and mineral, still showing a bit of tannins and a long black fruit driven finish with rose at the end. This remains surprisingly youthful.
February 4, 2020 - The wine looks violet colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like violet, plum and red currant. The body is medium. The wine has silky texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has low acidity.
September 23, 2019 - Pausing for the Cause 2019 (Chicago, IL): A stunning wine -- it has the depth and complexity of a true grand cru and also shows so correctly for the vintage. A nice mix of red and black fruit, and some serious tannin on the palate, with this mushroom-scented perfume that I'm pretty sure is laden with pheromones too. Intoxicating and complex on the palate as well; this was certainly one of the wines of the evening (and there were many!).
February 8, 2017 - Old and New Red Burgundy Dinner (Yan's China Bistro, Walnut Creek, Ca.): Mike brought a terrific bottle and on the wine label it states "Le Musigny" although recent vintages and the Jadot website show wine labels only with "Musigny" stated, wonderful nose of red and black cherry fruit, allspice, cranberry, currants, and floral notes of mums, medium/big body, silky, rich fruit, mouth filling, about 2 years to its peak, elegant tasting, and a long, long, flavorful finish.Third place.
September 8, 2016 - Having had a lot of 1993s recently, this wasn't in the same zip code. Aromatics had some floral notes, but more rustic than I'd expected. Retained very strong acidity. Long, but the wine also dried out with time in the glass.