Musigny Joseph Drouhin 2023 (750ML)

97 Points, John Gilman, View from the Cellar: "Like the 2023 Griotte, the Musigny this year from Joseph Drouhin is also quite black fruity in personality out of the blocks. The wine delivers a superb and already very complex bouquet of black cherries, dark berries, gamebird, mustard seed, a nice touch of sweet stem tones, chalky minerality with a vein of iron running through them, woodsmoke and spicy oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and beautifully sappy at the core, with marvelous soil signature, ripe, seamless tannins, tangy acids and impeccable focus and balance on the long, complex and vibrant finish. Great juice, but this will be a long-distance runner. 2042-2100." 01/25 #115

95-97 Points, Neal Martin, Vinous: "The 2023 Musigny Grand Cru comes from three plots, which make 0.67 hectares, which equates to six barrels (since part of the vineyard was removed). The bouquet is beautifully defined with mineral-rich red fruit, hints of forest floor and a background garrigue note. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, the weight and complexity expected from a Musigny and hints of black pepper and black tea toward the persistent finish. This is superb. (Drink between 2030-2060)" 01/25

94-96 Points, William Kelley, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "The 2023 Musigny Grand Cru is exquisite, exhibiting lovely aromas of cherries and plums mingled with rose petals, orange zest and exotic spices. Full-bodied, supple and layered, with an unctuous core of fruit, lively acids and sweet, melting tannins, it's seamless and complete." 01/25

96-99 Points, Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy: "A huge density of ruby crimson colour with a fruit that is utterly majestic and totally true to Musigny. The glorious dark raspberry fruit fills the middle palate in a way that the Amoureuses did not quite manage, and with an easily adequate structure of refined tannins. Such a velvet coating. This will stay in my mouth for as long as it takes to hurry on to my next appointment. Bravo!" 11/24

93-96 Points, Allen Meadows, Burghound: "This elegantly perfumed wine possesses the most floral-suffused nose of the entire range along with a lovely range of spice elements. The suave, sleek and solidly concentrated larger-scaled flavors brim with minerality while displaying focused power on the tautly muscular, firm and strikingly persistent finale that is also impeccably well-balanced. This is a wine of sheer class; indeed the word Zen comes to mind. (Drink starting 2037)" 04/25