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Burgundy Insights from the Winehog
The Musigny Vieilles Vignes is always a step up from the Bonnes Mares ... but the magnificent Bonnes Mares is closer than normally in 2013. In the bouquet a lovely play between minerality, red and dark fruit ... the expression of fruit is energetic, deep and pure ... spiced by the powerful …
[Read more...] about Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé, Musigny Vieilles Vignes 2013
This example of the Vogüé Musigny 02 is more youthful than the bottle tasted four month earlier. In the nose layered red fruit - intense, rich and almost dense, with the powerful Musigny minerality lurking in the background. On the palate deep and weighty red fruit - powerful and intense with a …
[Read more...] about Domaine Comte de Vogüé, Musigny Vieilles Vignes 2002
The Musigny Vieilles Vignes 1996 from Vogue is quite a masterpeice by Francois Millet. The nose is crammed with red and dark fruits brought forward by a very intense slightly citrus infused Chambolle minerality. On the palate very balanced and powerful ... with a zen like and airy expression of the …
[Read more...] about Domaine Comte de Vogüé, Musigny Vieilles Vignes 1996
On my November visit to Burgundy I had the opportunity to visit Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé for a tasting of the 2013 vintage from cask. The Vogüé tasting is sort of a benchmark tasting for me, as this is one of the very first estates I visited in Burgundy back in the late 1990s. It's always a …
[Read more...] about Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé – tasting of 2013s from Cask
The 1986 Musigny Vieilles Vigne from Domaine Comte de Vogüé is mature and quite delicate. A special wine - as this is the first vintage made by the current wine maker François Millet. The bouquet is open and quite expressive with red fruits, lovely notes of sous-bois ... hints of truffle and orange …
[Read more...] about Domaine Comte de Vogüé, Musigny Vieilles Vignes 1986
