2002 Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue, Musigny Grand Cru, Cuvee Vieilles Vignes, Bottle (750ml)

Few domaines carry the weight of history the way Comte Georges de Vogüé does in Chambolle-Musigny, where the family has farmed vineyards for more than 500 years and remains the appellation's most important landowner.

As majority holder of Musigny Grand Cru, the domaine has long set the standard for what the village's most celebrated site can achieve, wines built on haunting perfume, silky texture, and the kind of mineral precision that comes only from Musigny's thin, limestone-driven soils.

Wine Advocate placed the 2002 in the same rarified company as the domaine's legendary 1949, 1959 and 1990, though with a different temperament entirely.

Where the 1990 was bold, chewy and hyper-concentrated, the 2002 is described as the more feminine expression, refined and exquisitely tannic, layered with red cherry, candied raspberry.

It's a wine collectors and critics alike have consistently placed among Vogüé's finest modern releases, powerful yet seamless, with real minerality and lift carrying through a long finish. More than two decades from harvest, it's entered a genuinely gorgeous drinking window, still carrying real structure and a long runway ahead for anyone who wants to hold it further.

Wine Advocate | 97-99 Points

"The extraordinary 2002 Musigny Vieilles Vignes will most likely not have as much cellaring potential as the great 1949, 1959, or 1990, yet qualitatively is in the same league as those jewels from the past. It sports a profound nose of red cherries, spices, candied raspberries, and hints of oak. This noble, concentrated, refined wine reveals loads of flowers intermingled with red as well as black fruits in its complex personality. Unlike the bold, chewy, hyper-concentrated 1990, this is a feminine wine, a work of art with exquisite tannin."

Stephen Tanzer | 96+ Points

"Good deep red-ruby. Superripe aromas of black raspberry, wild blackberry, blueberry syrup, mocha and licorice. Large-scaled, dense and broad, but more broodingly backward today than the Bonnes-Mares. But this stunning wine shows uncanny energy and sappiness in the mouth and great breadth, solidity and lift on the finish, with explosive flavors of blueberry, blackberry, raspberry and menthol."

Burghound | 96 Points

"Brilliant ruby. Expansive and very open on the nose with a fantastic array of spices, flowers and fruit aromas leading to very serious, exuberantly fresh and impressively deep flavors that also have a wonderfully tactile texture to them. But as it usually is, it's not the raw power that impresses but rather the incredible combination of mind boggling complexity coupled with perfect balance and this just dances across the palate yet stains it with notably ripe pinot extract. The finish is all silk and velvet but with a deeply buried, very firm and chewy backbone of tannins that lasts for minutes. This is greatness in the making. Tasted multiple times with consistent notes."