2018 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru ex Domaine Release 2023 Comte Georges de Vogüé, Burgund (0,75l)

Allen Meadows' Burghound - 2018 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru ex Domaine Release 2023, Comte Georges de Vogüé

A ripe and super-fresh nose offers up notes of black raspberry, plum liqueur, Asian-style tea and a whiff of incense. The racy, intense and mineral-driven big-bodied flavors retain outstanding delineation as well as an abundance of palate soaking dry extract before delivering stunningly good length. This incredibly powerful effort is both classy and highly complex and like the Bonnes Mares, is a wine that will live for decades. With that said, it's not so backward and compact to preclude it being approachable after only 10 to 12 years. - Allen Meadows, Jan. 2020

Vinous - 2018 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru ex Domaine Release 2023, Comte Georges de Vogüé

The 2018 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru is even darker than the Bonnes-Mares. It has a spectacular bouquet of intense black fruit, blueberries and shucked oyster shells, the mineralité heightened over the Bonnes-Mares and lending a great deal of precision. The palate is medium-bodied with blueberry, boysenberry and black currant fruit, extraordinary tension, razor-sharp acidity and a dash of white pepper on the crystalline finish. One of the finest Musignys I have tasted from barrel at de Vogüé. - Neal Martin, Jan. 2020