{"product_id":"2023-jacques-frederic-mugnier-nuits-st-georges-clos-des-fourches-1er-cru-burgundy-franc","title":"2023 Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier, Nuits St. Georges, Clos des Fourches, 1er Cru, Burgundy, Franc","description":"\u003cp\u003eDomaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier is one of Chambolle-Musigny's great storytellers, an estate where the finesse is not a stylistic choice but a legacy. The domaine's origins reach back to the 1860s, when Frédéric Mugnier, a Dijon liqueur maker with an instinctive feel for great land, began assembling some of the village's most cherished vineyards as phylloxera reshaped Burgundy. Musigny, Bonnes-Mares, Les Amoureuses, Les Fuées, Chambolle-Musigny itself, and later Clos de la Maréchale formed a patchwork of extraordinary terroir anchored by the Château de Chambolle-Musigny. The 20th century brought decades of leases, inheritances, and near losses, but the thread was never broken. When the current leader, fifth generation Jacques-Frédéric, returned to the estate in 1985, he stepped into a rich story and set about writing its next chapter with the conviction one would expect from an engineer by training.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrédéric Mugnier's winemaking avoids formulaic farming labels, a choice that stems not from skepticism but from a desire to work with intention, guided by both scientific curiosity and aesthetic ideal. The vineyards are tended with restraint, the cellar operated with an almost monastic calm, and every decision aims toward a truer form of expression where the vineyard has room to speak. The results are considered among the most haunting wines in Burgundy. At Mugnier, terroir is preserved, and then illuminated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou won't find the Clos des Fourches on any map of Burgundy. The name vanished at the end of the 19th century, buried under the more glamorous Clos de la Maréchale, a grander title that did away with the old connotations of fourches patibulaires, the gallows from which the plot once took its name. Frédéric Mugnier revived it, with characteristic dry wit, to designate a particular cuvée: wine from the youngest vines within that vast monopole in Prémeaux, at Nuits-Saint-Georges's southern edge. The Clos de la Maréchale itself returned to the domaine only in 2004, after decades under lease to Faiveley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat those younger vines give up in depth and staying power, they repay in immediacy. Clos des Fourches has always been the more open-faced of the estate's two Nuits cuvées, more perfumed, more supple, quicker to offer itself. Where Clos de la Maréchale asks for patience, this one reaches out. Rose, cherry, a lifted floral quality that reads almost more Chambolle than Nuits, and a freshness that makes the glass easy to empty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2023 wears all of that gracefully. Mugnier describes the vintage as one of length and depth rather than scale and breadth, a return to something recognizably Burgundian after several warmer years. Open-knit and floral now, with effortless charm and clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51341167558952,"sku":"AT23MUGNIERFOURCHES750","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/2023Jacques-FredericMugnier_NuitsSt.Georges_ClosdesFourches_1erCru_Burgundy_Franc.jpg?v=1772749061","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2023-jacques-frederic-mugnier-nuits-st-georges-clos-des-fourches-1er-cru-burgundy-franc","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}