"Medium amber-edged red. Slightly roasted red fruits on the nose, complicated by mocha, clove and soil tones. Quite rich and truffley in the mouth, with very ripe red fruit flavors enlivened by underlying minerality and harmonious acidity. (This was the only time the Mugneret sisters acidified their Clos Vougeot.) Very broad without being especially fleshy, this extract-rich wine finishes seriously tactile, classically dry and long. Marie-Christine told me that the fermentations started very quickly in 1989 as the estate did not have today's system for chilling the fruit. (the first vintage vinified by the Mugneret sisters, as their father had died the previous November; from a dry summer followed by a hot harvest)"
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