Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue - Musigny Vieilles Vignes 2023
Price: $1299.96
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| Producer | Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue |
| Country | France |
| Region | Burgundy |
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Vintage | 2023 |
| Sku | 603810 |
| Size | 750ml |
In the grand scheme of Burgundy, Grand Crus are exceptional sites where “good things happen more often,” as one vigneron famously put it. Of the 33 Grand Crus, Musigny stands out as one of the very best. Domaine Comtes Georges de Vogüé, owning the entirety of Les Petits Musigny and a large portion of Les Musigny—over 7 hectares across more than 22 individual parcels—offers one of the most complete expressions of this legendary vineyard. This monopole-like control allows the domaine to craft a wine that is both precise and deeply reflective of its terroir.
The 2023 Musigny Rouge demonstrates remarkable concentration and vibrancy. Each parcel was fermented individually under Jean Lupatelli, with roughly 50% whole-cluster fermentation and light extraction, allowing the natural energy and color of the fruit to shine. The wine opens with lifted red and dark fruit, delicate floral aromatics, and a taut, mineral-driven structure, framed by fine, silky tannins. Despite its depth and scale, the wine never feels heavy—energy and lift define the finish giving the wine both immediate appeal and long-term aging potential.
Vinous Media: 97-99 Points
I tasted the 2023 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru both as components from the seven different cuvées that make the final blend and as an approximation of the final blend itself. This has exquisite delineation on the nose: blackberry, raspberry, crushed stone and touches of undergrowth—very harmonious. The palate is medium-bodied, tightly wound and linear, with a sense of symmetry on the entry. But of all the Musigny tasted from barrel in 2023, this has perhaps the most nascent freshness, tension and complexity on the finish. A sense of completeness. Outstanding.
Burghound: 95-97 Points
From an incredible 6.46 ha parcel, which doesn't include the .67 ha section planted to chardonnay. A more restrained if just as pretty and equally perfumed nose displays a similar array of red and dark cherry, exotic jasmine tea and dried orange peel along with a hint of sandalwood. On the palate the broad-shouldered and even more concentrated flavors manage the trick of being more powerful but also more refined with an almost aggressive minerality that seems to build in intensity on the compact, youthfully austere and massively long finale. This is however exceptionally firm and is very much a 'buy and forget you own it' wine. In a word, superb.*Burghound Don't Miss!*
Wine Advocate: 95-96 Points
The 2023 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru, which we tasted from a variety of sub-parcels, is very promising, mingling aromas of dark berries and cherries with notions of orange zest, rose petals, incense and iris. Medium to full-bodied, cool and layered, with a rich core of fruit framed by ultra-refined tannins, it's suave and harmonious, with a long, fragrant finish. This accomplished Musigny only confirms that de Vogüé is performing on a high level today. The renaissance at Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé continues, underlined by a beautifully sensual and perfumed 2023 portfolio. As I wrote last year, Jean Lupatelli took the reins at Comte de Vogüé with the 2021 vintage. Under the previous direction, which began with the 1986 vintage, the de Vogüé wines could often be chunky and unyielding. Lupatelli has changed all that, revising every aspect of the winemaking process. The management of harvest itself seems to be a critical step, and in 2021, he abandoned the use of large gondolas to transport the grapes from the vineyard to the winery, replacing them with small cases. There's not a new sorting table, but the domaine's must pump has been banished in favor of filling tanks by gravity. All this means that the fruit is being handled much more gently. Cooperage choices are being refined, and a new racking tank has been acquired to permit proper blending before bottling so that there is one, consistent cuvée; and of course, the details of the bottling process itself are (
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