2012 Musigny Vieilles Vignes
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Tasted blind at the annual "Burgfest" tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Musigny Vielles Vignes Grand Cru from de Vogue has slightly brighter and more vivacious fruit than J-F Mugnier, and in fact, the two wines seem to go in two different trajectories in the glass, this blossoming and the other becoming more occluded. De Vogue's Musigny is unashamedly floral in style, very elegant and yet delineated. There is a noticeable estuary scents, mudflats and seaweed, that begin to permeate the fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with very fine tannin, wonderful acidity and succinctly integrated new oak that is barely tangible. It is intense but elegant, long and tender in the mouth. It is a fabulous Musigny, one of the best that the domaine has produced in recent years. Oct 2015, www.robertparker.com
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Neal Martin
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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A brooding but gorgeously spicy nose is comprised of liqueur-like dark berry fruit scents that also display plenty of floral influence that includes notes of lavender, violet and, somewhat curiously, honeysuckle. There is outstanding concentration and punch to the seductively textured and marvelously intense big-bodied flavors that are borderline robust as the supporting tannins are dense but refined. I really like the Zen-like sense of harmony to the explosively long and pungent mineral-driven finish that really stains the palate. This is flat out remarkable. Jan 2015, www.burghound.com, Drink: 2032+
Deep, bright red. Brilliantly complex, focused nose offers scents of redcurrant, blueberry, crushed stone, spices, red licorice, menthol and botanical herbs. Boasts extraordinary sweetness and depth to its chewy, sappy red and dark fruit flavors. Really bulletproof fruit here! Spreads out on the back half to saturate every square millimeter of the palate, finishing with penetrating berry fruit and salty minerality. Remarkably long and tactile. 96+ Mar 2015, www.vinous.com, Drink: 2028-2050
Almost black. Not much immediately on the nose. You know there's a lot buried in there but for the moment it is really quite severe. All buried! Masses of tannin. A different dimension to anything I have tasted so far. The most tannic wine of the lot. Lots of introversion. You'll need to wait SO long for this! Massive. So different from the other 2012s. More solid and tough but not aggressively dry. Opened out a little on the nose to show some intense fruit. 18.5+. Dec 2013, www.jancisrobinson.com, Drink: 2030-2050
