Musigny Grand Cru Reviews

The 2009 Le Musigny is dazzling. Sweet roses, cherries and spices are some of the notes that emerge from this impossibly elegant, haunting wine. The layers of fruit and complexity are beyond eternal, while the tannins feel like cashmere on the finish. I can’t wait to taste this once it is in bottle. Sadly, there will only be 900 bottles to go around, so I am not sure how likely that is. The Musigny was made with 80% whole bunches and was aged in 100% new oak. Tasted from barrel. Anticipated maturity: 2019-2039. Biodynamic farming and non-interventionalist winemaking are at the heart of the approach at Domaine de la Vougeraie. The 2009s saw roughly a 25 days of maceration (including a week of cold soak) with one punch down a day. Once in barrel racking was kept to a bare minimum. A number of wines were bottled in late 2010 and early 2011. I tasted these wines with winemaker Pierre Vincent in March 2011.

(from a tiny parcel of only .17 ha) 80% whole clusters. A dazzling array of spice, earth, mineral, fruit and overt floral aromas that change every few seconds while introducing elegant, pure, transparent and vibrant tightly constructed flavors that possess superb power and striking depth of material on the unbelievably long finish. This is quite firmly structured but impeccably well-balanced and this brilliant effort is a perfect example of the term power without weight. A monument in the making as there is just another dimension here. 2024+