Jacques-Frederic Mugnier Chambolle Musigny 1er Cru Les Amoureuses 2020 [NET] CRV10 a White Russian

a White Russian

gives him everything he needs

and sweet licorice root

Latin for ‘one hundred herbs’

The 1996 vintage is now thirty years old and squarely in mature territory

Jacques-Frederic Mugnier Chambolle Musigny 1er Cru Les Amoureuses 2020 [NET] CRV10 a White RussianMany in Burgundy consider Les Amoureuses the finest Premier Cru in all of Chambolle Musigny, a wine that routinely rivals the grand crus, and Frederic Mugnier's version is among the most coveted bottles in the entire Cote de Nuits. Mugnier is a master of elegance and perfume, and this tiny half hectare parcel of old vines, planted on shallow red clay over limestone bedrock, gives him everything he needs. The vines, set down in the 1950s and 60s,