2005 Domaine Georges Mugneret-Gibourg Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Feusselottes

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  5/11/2022 - drwine2001 wrote:

  Opened and poured at a restaurant. Light ruby core with watery rim. At first, tart cherry/cranberry aromas, later joined by strong mint and menthol-a cool rather than ripe vintage nose. Light to medium weight with a lean, grippy, saline, earthy feel and moderate tannins. With a few hours of air, the fruit sweetened to show riper black cherry with a blood orange note. The texture also softened with better integration of the acidity and tannins, but it never reached the silky mouth feel that this producer can achieve. It is relatively restrained and seemingly has avoided over extraction, both of which are positives for the vintage. I was not enamored of this Feusselottes but liked its trajectory over time, which suggests better things to come with more bottle aging. If I were to open another bottle in the near future, I would definitely opt for a several hour decant.

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  10/16/2021 - hargy Likes this wine: 91 Points

  all berries and cherries at the moment, this has a long long way to go - leave for three years plus

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  3/5/2021 - bill00 wrote: 97 Points

  Spectacular. I love this wine pretty much every vintage, but the '05 is really something special. Effusive aromatics of perfectly pure cherry fruit. Incredible purity. While the fruit is so inviting and makes this easy to love, there is a serious core of minerality underneath it. Smooth and seamless. Everything is in perfect harmony. Adore this.

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  7/17/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:

  Blind 6/7. Josh had said he was bringing this, but once we switched this to "grand cru" only, I thought he was bringing another bottle. On the nose though, this immediately made me think of Mugneret-Gibourg and a powerful vintage, so I was wondering if this was an 05 from the sisters. I suspect subconsciously I was influenced by knowing that's what Josh was bringing. However, the 2.5 hours of air makes a huge difference to this wine (as I'd had it 4 days earlier off pop and pour when it was CLOSED). This is classic Mugneret-Gibourg, which is ripe fruit that's extracted just right, an unobtrusive touch of oak, some spice on the nose, great body with some dark fruit and good complexity. Open now, but only with the decant. Ultimately, this is a bit more Mugneret-Gibourg than it is Chambolle to me, but that's picking very tiny nits.

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  6/22/2020 - Nicephoras wrote:

  2005 Burgundy blinds on Jason's roof: Blind 5 of 9. This was a whiff - despite the house style and this being Chambolle, this was quite closed down. Given the structure I thought this might be one of the other two Ducs, and boy was I wrong! The bones are all here, but this is nowhere near ready for prime time - even the nose was pretty unforgiving.

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