The 2021 Musigny Grand Cru is one of the wines of the vintage, as has routinely been the case for more than a few years. Mingling aromas of raspberries and blood orange with notions of sweet spices, damask roses, violets and coniferous forest floor, it's full-bodied, satiny and seamless, with a deep, layered core, racy acids and beautifully integrated tannins. Concluding with a long, perfumed finish, it will be well worth the wait.

The 2020 Musigny Grand Cru unwinds in the glass with a profound bouquet of raspberries and plums mingled with notions of musk, licorice, Indian spices, violets and black truffle. Full-bodied, layered and multidimensional, it's rich and concentrated, with lively acids, powdery tannins and a long, saline finish. For all its intensity and drama, it remains remarkably seamless, even effortless. But that's the essence of Mugnier's style, and of Musigny at its best.

One of the wines of the vintage, Mugnier's 2019 Musigny Grand Cru is stunning. Wafting from the glass with incipiently complex aromas of orange rind, cherries, sweet red berries, Indian spices, rose hips, potpourri, raw cocoa and grilled squab pigeon, it's full-bodied, layered and multidimensional, its sumptuous and enveloping attack segueing into a layered core of fruit framed by rich, immensely velvety tannins. Long and even rather dramatic for a young Musigny, for all its undeniable concentration and elegantly muscular structure, it displays not the slightest youthful asperity.

The 2014 Musigny Grand Cru is just being released. Wafting from the glass with aromas of rose petals, Egyptian musk, orange rind, peonies, warm spices and red berries, it's full-bodied, velvety and perfumed, with superb concentration, lively acids and fine, powdery tannins that still assert themselves on the long, penetrating and gently chalky finish. This is a brilliant Musigny, but while Mugnier has done some of the work for his clients by aging the wine at the domaine for seven or eight years, it still demands a decade of additional patience.

Released only late last year, Mugnier's 2013 Musigny Grand Cru is still far from true maturity, but it has at least begun a graceful evolution, unwinding in the glass with scents of exotic spices, red berries, orange rind, rose petals, potpourri and sweet soil tones. Full-bodied, ample and velvety, with powdery, melting tannins and lively acids, the cool, late harvest has imparted a cool, crystalline purity to its deep core of fruit. Long and sapid, ideally one would forget it for another decade to see it at the beginning of what will be a long plateau of maturity.