Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue Musigny Grand Cru Cuvee Vieilles Vignes 2015

Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue Musigny Grand Cru Cuvee Vieilles Vignes 2015

The 2015 George Comte de Vogue Musigny VV Grand Cru is an outstanding Burgundy that highlights the unparalleled quality of the Musigny vineyard. With a captivating nose of ripe red fruits, earth, and subtle floral undertones, this wine offers a masterful balance of power and grace on the palate. The texture is silky and smooth, the flavors are complex, and the finish is long and elegant. This extraordinary wine will continue to evolve and impress for years to come.

Robert Parker (Wine Advocate)

• Tasted blind, the 2015 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru was also showing extremely well, unfurling in the glass with aromas of ripe cherries, rose petal, dark chocolate, licorice and incense, displaying its framing of new oak a little more obviously than when I tasted it a few months ago. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and complete, with a rich chassis of firm but fine tannins, a deep—even dense—core of fruit and a long, lingering finish. Like the Bonnes Mares, this was immediately identifiable as a de Vogüé wine, but it spoke just as eloquently of Musigny. It's a cuvée that always tastes spectacular from barrel, so it's wonderful to see it living up to expectations in bottle.

Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé Musigny Grand Cru ‘Cuvée Vieilles Vignes’ 2015 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: 2015

• 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, 40 years and older

• 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, 30% new

• Bottle size: 750 ml

• Closure: Natural cork

• Alcohol: 13.5%

• Critic scores: 96+/100 — William Kelley, Wine Advocate; 95–97/100 — Neal Martin, Vinous; 96/100 — Allen Meadows, Burghound

• Drinking window: 2025–2045 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 2015 Musigny Vieilles Vignes draws from old vines aged 40 years and older, giving the wine its depth, concentration and complexity.

The 2015 Vintage

The 2015 Burgundy growing season was early, warm and dry, producing physiologically ripe fruit that retained notable tartaric acidity and fine-grained tannins. The resulting wines are opulent and ripe, with a soupçon of exotic fruit—cassis and boysenberry jam—balanced by crushed violet and iodine notes.

The 2015 Musigny Vieilles Vignes is described as initially more introspective than the Bonnes-Mares, with predominantly black fruit and blueberry developing in the glass, a slight earthiness that shimmies towards floral scents as it opens. It is a wine of substance that will age over 30–40 years.

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 30% new oak. The final blend is assembled from multiple sub-sections, creating a wine of remarkable complexity and balance.

Tasting Profile

The 2015 Musigny Vieilles Vignes has an iridescent purple hue, with a showy, very pure, almost glossy bouquet of copious blueberry and black cherry fruit infused with pressed violet petals. On the palate, it is medium-bodied with supple tannin, rounded and fleshy in style, very long, with a tang of blood orange toward the finish.

William Kelley describes aromas of ripe cherries, rose petal, dark chocolate, liquorice and incense, framed by new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and complete, with a rich chassis of firm but fine tannins, a deep—even dense—core of fruit and a long, lingering finish.

Aroma and flavour: blueberry, black cherry, black raspberry, cassis sorbet, pomegranate, violet, rose petal, dark chocolate, liquorice, incense, menthol and stony minerality.

Palate: medium- to full-bodied, ample and complete, with firm but fine tannins, vibrant acidity, layered fruit and a long, lingering 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 2015 Musigny Vieilles Vignes will drink well from 2025 and last for decades, while Allen Meadows notes it should be kept for twenty years to fully appreciate its potential, though it could be drunk already thanks to its silken texture. 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 2015 vintage’s exceptional quality has earned it 96+ points from Wine Advocate and 96 points from Burghound.

The combination of the domaine’s reputation, the legendary Musigny terroir and the richness of the 2015 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.