Comte Georges de VOGUE -- 2012s from Bottle

 Domaine Comte Georges de VOGUE (Chambolle-Musigny)

2012s from Bottle

The wines below were bottled in February and March 2014. These are highly impressive wines, but as I indicate below, several seem already to be shutting down, and my guess, based on prior experience with de Vogüé wines, is that they will remain closed and therefore difficult for quite some time.

2012 Chambolle-Musigny

This wine is dense and tight but with elegance to go with the structure of the vintage. The fruit is both red and dark and there is length. The wine is young and still not completely integrated, but one can see already that all the parts are there. 93/A+

2012 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru

As always, the Chambolle 1er Cru is uniquely from Musigny vines less than twenty-five years old. It shows fresh, crunchy fruit in the nose. The mouth has breadth and power but with freshness in the sense of biting into a piece of fruit that is perfectly ripe with not the slightest suggestion of overripeness. This wine is the classic iron fist in a velvet glove. However, one can see that this wine is beginning already to shut down. 93+/A

2012 Bonnes-Mares

De Vogüé’s Bonnes-Mares has brandied cherry aromas. The mouth shows dark cherries and is light on the palate, even though the texture seems to coat the tongue. There seems to be a bit of dark chocolate, too. But this wine, too, is already shutting down. 94+/A

2012 Musigny    vieilles vignes

The Musigny is very deep and very pure in its dark fruit aromas. The mouth shows purity and depth, too, with primary blackberry and cherry fruit that are very fresh. This wine needs at least 20-25 years to reach maturity, but it may well outlive anyone who reads these notes as they are released. 97(+)/A+