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Wine Description
The Story
The Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé is inextricably linked to the Grand Cru vineyard of Musigny—in some eyes the pinnacle of Pinot Noir—a wine that should be both complete and profound but never heavy: 'majesty itself' claims Clive Coates. In 2009 Millet started picking on September 9 in order to keep as much as freshness as possible. The fruit was 100% destemmed. New oak ranged from 15% for the Chambolle villages to 35-40% for the Bonnes Mares...
Vintage 1947
The 1947 wine vintage in Burgundy is legendary and universally regarded as one of the greatest, most opulent, and most historic vintages of the 20th century. A scorching, intensely hot summer led to exceptionally high natural sugar concentration and massive fruit extraction, yielding rich, velvety Pinot Noirs with dizzying aromatic complexity. While the extreme heat caused tricky fermentations for many winemakers due to soaring sugars, the res...
