Joseph Drouhin - Musigny 1996

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Joseph Drouhin Description

Since 1880, Maison Joseph Drouhin has built a reputation for wines that reflect their individual terroir and vintage. A balance of tradition and modern techniques characterizes Joseph Drouhin winemaking and vineyard management: on site nursery, plowing, leaf removal, 100% hand harvesting, open fermenters, fermenting and aging in oak. With its historic location deep in the heart of Beaune, the quality of its vineyards and the expertise resulting from years of experience in the cultivation of vines and traditional vinification, Maison Joseph Drouhin is uniquely placed to uphold authentic Burgundian style. Estate-grown Grapes of 2009 Vintage and later Now Officially Organic.

A View from the Cellar: 95 Points

"Back in 2011, the 1996 Drouhin wines were mostly closed down in deep hibernation and these were some of the wines that were in that autumnal phase in their fruit expression that I found a bit worrisome. Seven years down the road, it was great to see them emerged from their period of hibernation and showing beautifully. The nose on the 1996 Musigny was still a tad reserved vis à vis some of these other reds, but the wine was stunningly open on the palate, sappy at the core and showed great backend energy. The bouquet offers up classic Musigny complexity in an emerging stage of red and black cherries, plums, woodsmoke, a complex base of soil, mustard seed and cedar. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, tangy and modestly tannic, with great sappiness in the mid-palate, lovely focus and grip and a very, very long, complex finish. This is delicious today, but I would try to give it a few more years in the cellar and let the nose fully open up to the same point as the palate is today, for at that point, this will be pure magic!"-John Gilman, 2018