Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue Musigny Grand Cru Cuvee Vieilles Vignes 2017

Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue Musigny Grand Cru Cuvee Vieilles Vignes 2017

The 2017 Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue Musigny Grand Cru 'Cuvee Vieilles Vignes' is a stunning example of the esteemed Musigny vineyard's terroir. With a captivating nose of ripe red fruits, earthy notes, and subtle floral accents, this wine is a harmonious blend of power and grace on the palate. Its silky texture, complex flavors, and elegant finish promise a bright future, ensuring that this remarkable wine will continue to evolve and impress for years to come.

Robert Parker (Wine Advocate)

• The 2017 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru is showing very well indeed, unfurling in the glass with aromas of cherries, rose petal, warm spices and orange rind, framed by creamy new wood. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and velvety, with the greatest depth and dimension of any wine in the cellar, displaying excellent energy and completeness, and distinguished above all by striking length on the finish.

Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé Musigny Grand Cru ‘Cuvée Vieilles Vignes’ 2017 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: 2017

• 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, dating back to 1953

• 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, completely destemmed, no punch-downs

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

• Bottle size: 750 ml

• Closure: Natural cork

• Alcohol: 13%

• Critic scores: 94–96/100 — Neal Martin, Vinous; 93–96/100 — Allen Meadows, Burghound; 93–95/100 — William Kelley, Wine Advocate; 94–98/100 — Berry Bros. & Rudd

• Drinking window: 2027–2047 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 2017 Musigny Vieilles Vignes draws from old vines dating back to 1953, giving the wine its depth, concentration and complexity.

The 2017 Vintage

The 2017 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 2017 Musigny Vieilles Vignes is described as having a very expressive, complex bouquet, with a mélange of red, blue and black fruit making it difficult to identify a single dominant colour. Blueberry, wild strawberry and black currant intermingle, with hints of sea spray and touches of orange blossom developing with time.

Winemaking and Ageing

The Pinot Noir is hand-harvested in small boxes and fermented with ambient yeasts in wooden vats, completely destemmed and without punch-downs. This gentle approach preserves 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 2017 Musigny Vieilles Vignes has a very expressive, complex bouquet, with a mélange of red, blue and black fruit. Blueberry, wild strawberry and black currant intermingle, with hints of sea spray and touches of orange blossom developing with time.

The harmonious, silky palate is almost like a Romanée-Saint-Vivant in texture, offering great depth and an energetic, peppery finish that lingers long in the mouth. Allen Meadows describes an openly exotic nose with glimpses of black cherry liqueur, ginger, Asian-style tea, sandalwood and orange peel, with tighter, more mineral-driven big-bodied flavours that possess evident muscle on a powerful and dense yet beautifully refined finish.

Aroma and flavour: blueberry, wild strawberry, black currant, black cherry liqueur, sea spray, orange blossom, ginger, Asian-style tea, sandalwood and orange peel.

Palate: full-bodied, ample and velvety, with silky texture, great depth, energetic peppery finish and striking length.

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

Allen Meadows suggests that the 2017 Musigny Vieilles Vignes will need at least 15 years to reach its apogee, while William Kelley recommends waiting at least 10 to 15 years. 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 2017 vintage’s exceptional quality has earned it 94–96 points from Vinous and 93–96 points from Burghound.

The combination of the domaine’s reputation, the legendary Musigny terroir and the richness of the 2017 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.