Vogüé Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru 2009 1.5L

98 points Fine Wine Review: "Greater still, the Musigny shows spicy dark fruit aromas with floral, especially rose, aspects, too. In the mouth, the wine is broad and there is power but also finesse with a velvet texture and dark fruit. The wine is closed for now. For all the enormous and deep fruit, there is finesse, too, and an overall calm. This is a monumental wine, but one that will take a long time to reach its best drinking. (Issue #137; 2013)"

97+ points John Gilman (View From the Cellar): "The 2009 Musigny Vieilles Vignes from Domaine Comte de Vogüé is a profound young wine in the making. The beautifully complex and again, quite reserved nose offers up a magical blend of red and black cherries, raw cocoa, superb minerality, woodsmoke, a nice note of mustard seed, a definitive touch of iron and a lovely base of new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and beautifully balanced, with a rock solid core of pure fruit, great soil inflection, lovely acidity, suave, but again, quite substantial tannins and great length and grip on the magical finish. This is still a very young wine that will need all of fifteen years to really reach its apogee of maturity, but it is so good that I will be very surprised if hundred and hundreds of bottles are not drunk in its relative youth, as the wine is going to be very hard to resist after only a few years in the cellar. Another great Comte de Vogüé Musigny. 2025-2075+. (Nov/Dec 2010)"

97 points Antonio Galloni (Wine Advocate): "The 2009 Musigny Vieilles Vignes fleshes out beautifully with endless layers of fruit that caress the palate in stunning style. Sweet floral notes meld into expressive dark red fruit in this mysterious, evocative Burgundy. There is a weightless intensity to the Musigny that is achingly gorgeous. Waves of flavor continue to build towards the sexy, racy finish as the 2009 shows off its pedigree. The 2009 will always be an exuberant Musigny, but time in bottle will help shed some of the baby fat. This is likely to be a great, great wine for several decades. Anticipated maturity: 2024-2039. (Apr 2012)"

97 ponts Neal Martin (Vinous): "The 2009 Musigny Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru is one of the most successful wines of François Millet's reign. This has light bricking on the rim. The bouquet bursts forth with red berry fruit, shoe leather and menthol, crushed flowers and sous-bois. Maybe it would benefit from a little more delineation? The palate is beautifully balanced with fine-boned tannins, an unerring symmetry and a silky-smooth texture. Hints of spice appear towards the tender and long finish. Superb. Tasted blind at a 2009 horizontal at Club 1243. Drink: 2023-2045. (Mar 2023)"

96 points Allen Meadows (Burghound): "A fantastically complex nose offers up aromas of rose petals, violets, mint, cassis, black berry and a plethora of spice nuances that continue onto the intense and remarkably powerful imposingly constructed flavors that are blessed with buckets of dry extract that render the presently rigid tannic spine almost invisible on the impeccably and palate staining finish that seems to persist without end. As was the case from cask, I could still taste this several hours later and if given sufficient cellar time, this should be a very fine vintage for this storied wine. Drink: 2029+. (Jan 2012)"

96 points Falstaff: "Strong ruby, purple reflections, discreet ochre lightening on the rim. Sweet wild berryish fruit, in the underlay some fine wood spice, some nougat, nuances of black cherries, mineral touch, hints of candied orange zest. Substantial, deep and balanced, fine acidity, blackberryish confit, ripe, round tannins, shows a seamless texture, lingers long, has undoubtedly reached initial maturity. Drink: now-2040. (Jan 2023)"

95 points Stephen Tanzer (International Wine Cellar): "Good bright, deep red. Raspberry liqueur, crushed rock and vanillin oak on the suave, subdued nose; shows the greatest lift of these 2009s. Superconcentrated and creamy but light on its feet, displaying terrific energy and sappiness for 2009. Gained in verve with aeration, with high-pitched, tangy flavors of raspberry, pomegranate, flowers and minerals spreading out to saturate the mouth. With its finishing perfume and taste of limestone, this really transcends the vintage. (Mar/Apr 2012)"

95 points Jasper Morris, MW (Inside Burgundy): "A fresher colour than the Bonnes Mares, though still not one of the deepest. There is latent magic, overlaid with the accessible puppy fat of the vintage. There is greater intensity to the fruit across the palate, some nuances, a little bit of peach in with the deep red fruit, then a long and still infant finish. Tasted: June 2019. (Jun 2019)"