Professionele reviews
Robert Parker (95)
Tasted blind, Mugnier's stunning 2015 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Amoureuses similarly confirmed its magical showing earlier this year, soaring from the glass with a blaze of cherries, orange rind, licorice and rose petals. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and layered, seemingly beginning to shut down, with racy acids, an ineffable sense of completeness and a beautifully integrated chassis of incipiently satiny structuring tannin.
James Suckling (99)
The haunting beauty of this near-perfect wine is overwhelming. Incredible chalky minerality is married to great concentration and aromas of summer flowers, smoke, pomegranates and sour cherries. On the medium-bodied palate, the power is effortlessly underplayed, resulting in a dreamy texture that wafts away in the direction of infinity. From a 0.53-hectare parcel in the most famous 1er Cru of Chambolle.
Vinous (94)
The 2015 Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses 1er Cru is a wine that threw me at first. The high-toned, slightly smudged bouquet doles out the requisite blue fruit without much in the way of terroir expression, which, frustratingly, only seems to be revealed after 15-20 minutes. The palate is rounded and, again, quite vivacious and high-toned, featuring sharp, citric blue and black fruit that attacks the finish. This will require several years in bottle and decanting, but it is a great Les Amoureuses even if it initially seems a bit over the top. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.
Burghound (96)
As is usually the case this is both more elegant and more aromatically complex with its wonderfully broad-ranging nose of sandalwood, violet, plum, lavender, Asian-style tea and dark cherry scents. The gorgeously refined, intense and mineral-driven medium-bodied flavors are pure silk while delivering plenty of punch on the impeccably well-balanced finish. This is both classy and graceful and importantly for those who prefer their wines on the younger side, this should be reasonably approachable young meaning after 7 to 8 years. In a word, gorgeous.
BOW (9)
