There are only one and a half barrels of the 2021 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Vignes Rondes, but the wine is very attractive, exhibiting aromas of sweet raspberries and petals framed by oak, followed by a medium to full-bodied, supple and seamless palate that's pure and vibrant.

Aromas of cherries, sweet soil tones, dark chocolate and woodsmoke introduce the 2019 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Vignes Rondes, a medium to full-bodied, supple and enveloping wine that's round and gourmand, with lively acids and melting tannins cloaked in an ample core of fruit. As usual, it's the most giving and immediate of the Mugneret family's premiers crus.

The 2018 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Vignes Rondes has turned out especially well this year, bursting with aromas of cherries, cassis, peonies and orange rind that are framed by a very discrete touch of new oak. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, layered and enveloping, with powdery tannins, succulent acids and a penetrating finish.

Bursting with exuberant aromas of cherries, raspberries, cassis, blood orange and sweet soil tones, the 2017 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Vignes Rondes is medium to full-bodied, layered and enveloping, with a round, succulent and charming profile. This has fleshed out with its second winter of élevage, and it's the most giving and immediate of the Mugneret family's premiers crus this year.

A wild bouquet of grilled game, dark berries and rich soil introduce the 2016 Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru Les Vignes Rondes, a medium to full-bodied, firm and tangy wine that was more generous in barrel than it is from bottle, where fine but assertive Nuits tannins make their presence felt on the finish. While it's quite shut down today, I suspect it will actually attain its true plenitude before the fleshier, richer Chaignots, but in any case, it will require a decade's patience.