2000 Chambolle Musigny 1er Cru
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The 2000 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru offers cedar-laced black cherry aromas. Big, plush, and seductive, it is medium-bodied, concentrated, and opulent. Loads of blackberries, violets, and dark cherries are found throughout its personality as well as in its long, supple finish. Drink it by 2009. The 2000 vintage is yet another success story at Domaine du Comte Georges de Vogue. After having performed an evasivage (the removal of excess buds after flowering), the Vogue team still believed they had too much fruit on the vines and dropped half of the bunches prior to veraison as they did in 2001. In the end, they harvested a moderate 30 hectoliters per hectares in a vintage where their neighbors set records. According to Millet, the fact that the yields were kept under control also served to ensure a “very healthy” harvest. Importers: A David Schildknecht Selection, Vintner Select, Cincinnati, OH; tel. 513-229-3630; Vin Divino, Chicago, IL; tel. (773) 334-6700; Chambers & Chambers, Inc., San Francisco, CA; tel. (415) 642-5500; Dreyfus Ashby, New York, NY; tel. (212) 818-0770; Ideal Wines, Medford, MA; tel. 781-395-3300; and a Becky Wasserman Selection / Le Serbet; French Fax: 011-33-3-80-24-29-70, various American importers
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
The Wine Advocate
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Seductively spicy, black cherry fruit and harmonious, detailed, and beautifully balanced, almost lush flavors that are rich, long, wonderfully persistent and display notes of licorice and clove. This is really lovely stuff in a medium weight, very intense, relatively powerful style. Allen Meadows, Burghound Jan01,2003
Very pale ruby colour. Warm strawberry and preserved raspberry fruit with some white pepper, coriander seed and loam. A little leather. The palate is approaching maturity with flavours going into the dried fruit range and the low to medium level of tannins are softening into a powdery texture. Medium to high acidity and a long finish. Lisa Perrotti-Brown, May 2010
(from young Musigny vines) Good bright red. Roasted yet sappy aromas of raspberry and chocolate; with aeration, this seemed less oaky. Silky-smooth and round in the mouth; at once sweeter and firmer than the village wine. Seemed to lack verve at the outset but grew increasingly juicy and suave with aeration, showing more shape and structure. Finishes with substantial ripe tannins and very good length.
About the producer
Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé is one of Burgundy’s most revered domaines, defined by its historic stewardship of Musigny and its refined, age-worthy Chambolle-Musigny. Its wines are benchmarks for collectors seeking grand cru pedigree over power.