Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue Musigny Grand Cru Cuvee Vieilles Vignes 2013

Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue Musigny Grand Cru Cuvee Vieilles Vignes 2013

The 2013 George Comte de Vogue Musigny VV Grand Cru is an exquisite Burgundy that demonstrates the distinct terroir of the Musigny vineyard. With a captivating nose of ripe red fruits, earth, and subtle floral notes, this wine is both powerful and graceful on the palate. The texture is silky smooth, the flavors are layered, and the finish is long and refined. This extraordinary wine promises a bright future and will continue to evolve and impress for years to come.

Robert Parker (Wine Advocate)

• Served blind, the 2013 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru from Comte de Vogüé wore its pedigree on its sleeve, opening in the glass with a superb bouquet of wild strawberries, rose, cherry, blood orange and plum—much like it did in barrel. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and layered, with succulent acids, a deep mid-palate and a sapid, mineral-laden finish. Pure and transparent, this is a beautifully elegant Musigny that should be comparatively approachable in another 5 or 6 years.

Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé Musigny Grand Cru ‘Cuvée Vieilles Vignes’ 2013 is a red Burgundy from one of the Côte de Nuits’ most legendary Grand Cru sites, made from old Pinot Noir vines in Chambolle-Musigny. It is a rich, layered and profoundly mineral wine—opulent and ripe in youth, with the structure, tension and depth to age for decades.

Technical Details

• Producer: Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé, Chambolle-Musigny, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, France

• Wine: Musigny Grand Cru, Cuvée Vieilles Vignes

• Vintage: 2013

• Grape variety: 100% Pinot Noir

• Vineyard: Musigny Grand Cru, blended from multiple sub-sections

• Vineyard location: Chambolle-Musigny, Côte de Nuits

• Vine age: Old vines, over 25 years

• Yield: 24 hectolitres per hectare

• Production: Fewer than 1,000 cases per vintage

• Soil: Thin topsoils over limestone and red clay, at 260–300 metres elevation

• Harvest: Manual, in small boxes

• Fermentation: Spontaneous, with indigenous yeasts, 50% whole cluster

• Extraction: Gentle, only delicate pump-overs

• Ageing: Approximately 18 months in French oak barrels, 40–45% new

• Bottle size: 750 ml

• Closure: Natural cork

• Alcohol: 13.5%

• Critic scores: 95–97/100 — Neal Martin, Vinous; 93–95/100 — William Kelley, Wine Advocate; 94–97/100 — Allen Meadows, Burghound

• Drinking window: 2024–2044 and beyond

• Serving temperature: 15–17°C

The Producer

Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé is one of Burgundy’s most historic and revered estates, based in Chambolle-Musigny and holding extensive parcels in the Musigny Grand Cru. The domaine is known for its profound, terroir-driven Pinot Noirs that combine aromatic complexity, mineral precision and exceptional ageing potential.

The Musigny Vieilles Vignes is the estate’s flagship wine, assembled from multiple sub-sections of the Grand Cru, including Les Petits Musigny and a significant portion of Le Musigny. Each parcel is vinified separately before blending, allowing the final wine to express the full diversity and complexity of the Musigny terroir.

Vineyard and Terroir

Musigny is one of the great Grand Crus of the Côte de Nuits, located in Chambolle-Musigny and known for producing wines of exceptional finesse, perfume and depth. The vineyard is divided into several sub-sections, each with its own character and contribution to the final blend.

The soils are thin topsoils over limestone and red clay, at 260–300 metres elevation, providing both structure and mineral tension. The 2013 Musigny Vieilles Vignes draws from old vines over 25 years old, giving the wine its depth, concentration and complexity.

The 2013 Vintage

The 2013 Burgundy growing season was cool and challenging, with uneven flowering and persistent rain complicating the growing season. Despite these difficulties, careful fruit selection and meticulous vineyard work allowed Domaine de Vogüé to retain the freshness, aromatic definition and fine tannic structure that define the vintage.

The 2013 Musigny Vieilles Vignes is described as having a cool, airy and extraordinarily complex nose, with notes of red raspberry, black cherry, violet, rose petal, Asian-style spices and a hint of orange pekoe tea. It is a wine of superb concentration, intensely stony and well-delineated, with broad-shouldered flavours brimming with palate-soaking dry extract.

Winemaking and Ageing

The Pinot Noir is hand-harvested in small boxes and fermented with ambient yeasts in tank, with 50% whole cluster. Only delicate pump-overs are used during fermentation, preserving the wine’s fruit purity and aromatic lift.

The wine is aged for approximately 18 months in French oak barrels, with 40–45% new oak. The final blend is assembled from multiple sub-sections, creating a wine of remarkable complexity and balance.

Tasting Profile

The 2013 Musigny Vieilles Vignes has a cool, airy and extraordinarily complex nose, with red raspberry, black cherry, violet, rose petal, cinnamon, anise and orange pekoe tea. On the palate, it is medium-bodied, tightly wound and linear, with a sense of symmetry on the entry.

The finish is long, youthfully austere, imposingly powerful, tautly muscular and massively long. William Kelley describes a bouquet of wild strawberries, rose, cherry, blood orange and plum, with a full-bodied, ample and layered palate, succulent acids, a deep mid-palate and a sapid, mineral-laden finish.

Aroma and flavour: red raspberry, black cherry, violet, rose petal, cinnamon, anise, orange pekoe tea, wild strawberry, blood orange, plum and crushed stone.

Palate: medium- to full-bodied, ample and layered, with fine tannins, succulent acidity, deep mid-palate and a sapid, mineral-laden finish.

Style: a profound, age-worthy Grand Cru Pinot Noir—opulent and ripe in youth, with the structure, tension and depth to evolve for decades.

Drinking Window

William Kelley suggests that the 2013 Musigny Vieilles Vignes will be comparatively approachable in another 5 or 6 years, while Allen Meadows notes it will need at least 15 years to reach its apogee. The wine’s richness and structure give it the balance to develop gracefully over the long term.

For current drinking, extensive decanting is recommended. Allow the wine 4–6 hours in a decanter or large Burgundy glass to reveal its full aromatic complexity and mineral depth.

Food Pairing

Serve at 15–17°C with roast duck, pheasant, guinea fowl, venison, lamb or beef in a light red-wine sauce. Its acidity and fine tannins also suit mushroom-based dishes, truffle preparations and semi-aged cheeses such as Époisses, Comté or Cîteaux.

Avoid very spicy or heavily smoked dishes, which can overwhelm the wine’s delicate fruit, floral aromatics and mineral precision.

Collector Note

This is a rare allocation wine from one of Burgundy’s most historic and revered producers, made from old vines in one of the Côte de Nuits’ great Grand Crus. Domaine de Vogüé’s Musigny Vieilles Vignes is produced in limited quantities—fewer than 1,000 cases per vintage—and the 2013 vintage’s exceptional quality has earned it 95–97 points from Vinous and 93–95 points from Wine Advocate.

The combination of the domaine’s reputation, the legendary Musigny terroir and the richness of the 2013 vintage makes this a compelling long-term proposition for collectors of age-worthy red Burgundy.

Recommended serving: decant for 4–6 hours before serving at 15–17°C; use a large Burgundy glass to allow its perfume, fruit and mineral depth to unfold.