Robert Parker

"The five barrels’ worth of Mugneret 2008 Nuits-St.-Georges Les Vignes Rondes – a lot that I frequently don’t get to taste here, from vines contiguous with their Chaignots – represented their first wine of the vintage to have gone into bottle, from which I tasted it. Salt-tinged, pungently herb-garlanded tart cassis and dark cherry offer real refreshment, though in a context of surprising palate breadth. Firm tannins rise to prominence in the finish here, blocking the sense of savor that accrues to the corresponding Chaignots. The recent bottling may have perturbed this, and I’d want to revisit it before hazarding a prognostication as to whether it will merit extended time in bottle in anticipation of softening." -David Schildknecht