1949 Domaine Comte Georges de Vogüé Musigny Cuvée Vieilles Vignes

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  3/26/2019 - nywine68 wrote: 97 Points

  An Evening of Vinous Merriment and Majesty Among Friends (Craft, New York): The next stage of evolution compared to the spellbinding 1962 and 1971. This has mind blowing complexity. Hoisin sauce with a melange of exotic Asian spices and stewed fruits. Gorgeous!

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  1/22/2014 - The Gilded Sage wrote:

  Dinner at Hollowbrook Manor, celebrating the debut of Lady Evelyn St. Clair.
  
  After a small amuse-bouche of escargots and Les Preuses, the guests were presented each with two cutlets of foetal calf, which had been braised in a medium of surpassing delicacy (not unlike the cognac and cream based sauces that often accompany courses of mature beef, but lighter and the more elegant to my taste). Any reservations I had about consuming a meat of such youth vanished instantly upon application of my knife, whereon I found a tenderness and succulence that transcended any and all moral consideration. This course was served with Comte de Vogue's stunning '49 Musigny, a wine whose elegance was worthy of the culinary marvel it accompanied, but whose power was perhaps not quite adequately restrained. I might have chosen to pour LeRoy's Amoureuses of same vintage, it being a wine somewhat more ethereal in nature, though I am admittedly loathe to question the judgement of Lord Hurst's excellent butler, Bixby, and anyway know not whether any of this latter wine is stored in Hollowbrook’s cellars. It was, in any case, a magnificent and near-perfect arrangement, and we spent the better part of two hours wholly in its thrall. I do not know whether calves of this gestational stage are available legally in all territories, but I recommend that all efforts be made to find out, and all avenues short of the out-an-out criminal be explored in pursuit of securing some quantity.

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