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Musigny Grand Cru--Vintage 1996
Côte de Nuits. Domaine-bottled: Georges Roumier
Tasting note: This dark-colored wine's aromas burst from the glass, inundating the nasal passages with loads of candied black currants, cherries, rose blossoms, lilies, and rosemary. This huge, velvety-textured, mouth-coating, and full-bodied wine is another in a long string of spectacular Musignys crafted by Christophe Roumier. Its palate is not as expressive as the previous wine's but it is potentially more complex, revealing black cherries, stones, cassis liqueur, sauteed morels, porcini mushrooms, and violets. Its awesomely long finish presents a new spectrum of flavors including black raspberries and roses.
I have not had the opportunity to re-taste Roumier's 1995 Musigny but my memory suggests it was even more concentrated and profound. Readers lucky enough to acquire this 1996 should cellar it through 2006 and drink it through 2018. Bravo! (94-97) points. Pierre Rovani, Wine Advocate #118, August 1998
3 bottles per lot
Côte de Nuits. Domaine-bottled: Georges Roumier
Tasting note: This dark-colored wine's aromas burst from the glass, inundating the nasal passages with loads of candied black currants, cherries, rose blossoms, lilies, and rosemary. This huge, velvety-textured, mouth-coating, and full-bodied wine is another in a long string of spectacular Musignys crafted by Christophe Roumier. Its palate is not as expressive as the previous wine's but it is potentially more complex, revealing black cherries, stones, cassis liqueur, sauteed morels, porcini mushrooms, and violets. Its awesomely long finish presents a new spectrum of flavors including black raspberries and roses.
I have not had the opportunity to re-taste Roumier's 1995 Musigny but my memory suggests it was even more concentrated and profound. Readers lucky enough to acquire this 1996 should cellar it through 2006 and drink it through 2018. Bravo! (94-97) points. Pierre Rovani, Wine Advocate #118, August 1998
3 bottles per lot
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