Musigny Grand Cru Reviews

The 2010 Musigny emerges from the glass with an extraordinary range of aromas and flavors. Freshly cut roses, red berries, mint and spices all flow gracefully from this finely chiseled Burgundy. The fruit gains tons of depth and volume in the glass as the wine continues to dazzle. This is yet another showstopper from La Vougeraie. Pierre Vincent used 80% whole clusters for the Musigny and aged the wine in 100% new oak. Anticipated maturity: 2025-2045. This is stunning set of wines from Pierre Vincent and Domaine de la Vougeraie. It is impossible to miss the attention to detail at this impeccably run domaine. No expense is spared. It takes 80 people to work the vineyards during harvest and another 20 in the cellar to take it from there. Production in 2010 was of course down significantly as it was everywhere else. Yields came in at 24 hectoliters per hectare for the Pinot and 29 for the Chardonnay. Vincent used between 30-80% whole bunches, depending on the wine. Readers who want to learn more might want to check out my video interview with Pierre Vincent on www.erobertparker.com. I will report on the domaine’s 2009s in the April issue. For now let me just say the 2009 Musigny is one of the wines of the vintage.

A soaring nose of cool, elegantly pure and very fresh aromas of violets, black cherry, plum and stone are gorgeously spicy. There is terrific intensity to the rich and mouth coating broad-shouldered flavors that brim with dry extract that imparts a velvety and seductive texture to the explosive and hugely long finish. This is very firmly structured and will require at least 20 years to realize its full, and considerable, potential.