Domaine Comte de Vogue   Musigny Cuvee Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru

2007 Musigny Cuvee Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru

By Domaine Comte de Vogue

The 2007 Musigny Cuvee Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru from Domaine Comte de Vogue, Burgundy

In a region steeped in vinous legend, few names stir the soul of Burgundy aficionados quite like Domaine Comte de Vogue. The 2007 Musigny Cuvee Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru represents a particularly intriguing chapter in the domaine's annals — a vintage that stands out for its finesse and structured complexity.

 

Benchmarking Brilliance: A Vintage To Remember

Often overshadowed by its more opulent neighbours from 2005 and 2009, the 2007 vintage confounds expectations. It has emerged as a dark horse, offering an articulate exposition of Musigny's intricate terroir. In this challenging year, marked by an uneven growing season, Comte de Vogue's prowess shone, carefully nurturing its old vines to yield a wine of elegance and depth.

 

Pure Pedigree, Poised Perfection

As we taste, the wine unfurls with an initial restraint that belies its underlying intensity. Suggestive floral aromatics—violets and peony—are underpinned by the unmistakable perfume of itself. On the palate, what strikes one immediately is the poise; a seamless tapestry woven from threads of succulent red cherries, earthy undertones, and delicate hints of spice. The 2007 bespeaks a silkier tannin structure than its peers, bestowing it with a transparent quality that makes it compellingly drinkable now yet endowed with the backbone for continued maturation.

The finish lingers with an insistent grace, echoing the resolve and adaptability of Domaine Comte de Vogue in navigating the year's capricious climate to produce a grand cru of understated brilliance.

 

An Astute Addition for the Discerning Investor

For those seeking to adorn their cellars or enhance their portfolios with a wine demonstrating both the pedigree of Musigny and the sagacity of its producers in less-celebrated vintages, the 2007 Musigny Cuvee Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru from Domaine Comte de Vogue is an astute choice. Reflecting on this wine, it emerges as an exemplar among peers, promising to shine brightly in tastings and perform valiantly in the market due to its uniqueness and rarity.

Indeed, this wine encapsulates all that is majestic about Burgundy — it is not merely a testament to the grandeur of its appellation but a poignant chronicle of resilience and mastery. One would be remiss not to consider adding such a storied vintage to their collection.

Current market price

$14,900.00

12x75cl

Highest score

95

POP score

595.33

Scores and tasting notes

95

Smoked meat and salt-, kelp-, and iodine-laced maritime mineral overlays to the sweetly ripe berry and pit fruit concentrate of de Vogue’s 2007 Musigny Vieilles Vignes make for a Pinot as intriguing as it is eager to caress and please. Plush, polished, and possessed of formidable sheer sap, it displays an energy and interplay seldom revealed in this vintage. A mineral savor of crustacean shell reduction keeps pace with nearly candied sweetness of berry fruit – and keeps you salivating uncontrollably – all the way to a distant finishing line. Francois Millet – always keen to pinpoint the expression of fruit he finds in each vintage – characterizes that of 2008 as “syrup-like,” and of 2007 as “candied.” I am skeptical that these metaphors can be generalized, but under no circumstances should “syrup-like” be taken as an attempt to deny the brightness or transparency displayed by so many of the best 2008s, including these. “To have been picked late” – in this instance, starting September 27 – “to have been picked cold, and to have fermented very slowly to created the largest amount of glycerol to combine with the freshness of the vintage,” opines Millet, constitutes a significant part of the 2008s’ secret, seduction, even mystery. “Late malo” – here completed in August – he adds, “was also good, so that the vintage could have a true childhood, and slowly, surely build itself. If we had had a southern wind when the weather changed, maybe we would have lost that identity of 2008. But by there being a northern wind, the evolution was continued” i.e. in a constant, cool trajectory. Not to short-change it, the 2007 vintage collection here is one of those few capable of standing direct comparison to its immediate successor – or indeed to nearly any other vintage from this address. Imported by Dreyfus Ashby, New York, NY; tel. (212) 818-0770; also a Peter Vezan Selection (various importers), Paris; fax 011 33 1 42 55 42 93

David Schildknecht - The Wine Advocate, 28 June 2010

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