Excellent bottle of Les Amoureuses. The texture is finely knit, as Les Amoureuses should be, but it's more powerful than most - not the leaner, lighter, more waifish Musigny that many of them are, but rather being much closer to Musigny itself in terms of its scale, density, and solidity as well as in some of the darker gravelly flavors that figure in. The last Amoureuses I had from Frederic Magnien (2002) was too oaky, in fact my notes say the oak totally ruined the wine. Here it is not a problem at all. The wood is still present, but it's developed and aged in much the same way that the rest of the wine ages, suggesting driftwood and some earthy decay more than the simple toastiness or sugar-and-spice of young oak.
Excellent bottle of Les Amoureuses. The texture is finely knit, as Les Amoureuses should be, but it's more powerful than most - not the leaner, lighter, more waifish Musigny that many of them are, but rather being much closer to Musigny itself in terms of its scale, density, and solidity as well as in some of the darker gravelly flavors that figure in. The last Amoureuses I had from Frederic Magnien (2002) was too oaky, in fact my notes say the oak totally ruined the wine. Here it is not a problem at all. The wood is still present, but it's developed and aged in much the same way that the rest of the wine ages, suggesting driftwood and some earthy decay more than the simple toastiness or sugar-and-spice of young oak.
May 20th, 2016