Frederic Mugnier Nuits-Saint-Georges 'Marechale' Rouge 2022
Frederic Mugnier Nuits-Saint-Georges 'Marechale' Rouge 2022
91-94 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy
Deeper denser colour than the Chambolle. This is somewhat headier also, darker fruit, perhaps a little higher in alcohol, black cherries, slightly dry tannins, though not exaggerated. Good grip but less fluid than the exquisite village Chambolle. Drink from 2030-2037.
91-93 William Kelley - RP Wine Advocate
Aromas of dark berries, ripe cherries, spices and grilled meats introduce the 2022 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Clos de la Maréchale, a medium to full-bodied, layered and youthfully structured wine with a deep core of fruit and chalky tannins that assert themselves gently on the finish.
William Kelley, The Wine Advocate
Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier picked over the first week of September, destemming his crop and maturing it with only a minimal supporting presence of new oak, as usual. Fermentations, he told me, went smoothly. The resulting wines are supple and suave, without quite the same drama as the unusually concentrated 2020s, the utterly sensual 2019s or the filigreed 2021s. With the exception of the domaine's sole white wine, they don't show much of the heat of the vintage. They seem set to offer long, broad and immensely pleasurable drinking windows.
90-92 pts Vinous
Drinking Window 2026 - 2042
The 2022 Nuits Saint-Georges Clos de la Maréchale 1er Cru has an open and expressive bouquet, quite pure in style, with brambly red fruit, loam and light iris flower scents. The palate is fresh with a slightly chalky-textured opening. It offers black plum and raspberry fruit with a very saline, quite feisty finish that manages to retain composure. Long finish. This is a fine Clos de la Marechale. - By Neal Martin on November 2023
You gotta love Frédéric Mugnier. As I have written before, what comes across as an almost ambivalent attitude to his métier, as if to say, ‘Did I give up a career in engineering to make Musigny?’ inevitably turns into a discussion about winemaking and the comings and goings of Burgundy. Mugnier is never shy of airing his opinion (either face-to-face or in print). To quote another winemaker from earlier that day, Mugnier is forever the contrarian. I think he wouldn’t want it any other way.
“It was an especially challenging growing season,” he tells me. “In early August, I was anxious as it was too hot, and the vines were not looking good, some berries already shriveling. Some already tasted a bit oxidized. But I like to be pessimistic. Fortunately, there was enough rain just before the harvest to revive the grapes. The harvest began September 1 and took place over seven days. There was not much triage, and the vinification was normal. The wines were raised in around 15% new oak for all the cuvées and no stems.”
The wines are a mixed bag. I felt that in juxtaposition with Mugnier’s other cuvées, the Chambolle Les Fuées exhibited a little sur-maturité. It’s normally a wine I like, more so than even his Bonnes-Mares, so I’ll revisit it once in bottle. The highlights predictably include the Les Amoureuses and Musigny Vieilles Vignes, the latter more taciturn aromatically but convincing in the mouth. Readers should note that Mugnier continues his policy of not releasing this wine until it has some bottle maturity. I tasted the current release, the 2016, which I published as a Cellar Favorite.
