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Dreyfus, Ashby & Co. Main Office 630 3rd Ave Adminstration 50 Avon Meadow Lane
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Domaine Comte Georges de
Vogue Vineyards Musigny (Grand cru) 7.25 hectares, Bonnes Mares (Grand cru) 2.66 ha, Chambolle-Musigny 'Les Amoureuses' (Prem Cru) 60 ares, 'Baudes' and 'Fuees' (Prem Cru) 1.8 ha, and small parcel of Village wine. One of the finest of all domains in Burgundy and considered by many to be the greatest in Chambolle-Musigny. The Musigny 'vieilles-vignes' is the jewel in the crown but all their wines are much sought after by our customers. All Musigny vines are at least 45 yrs old. Those that are younger go into their Chambolle-Musigny 'Prem Cru' which is in itself a very good wine. The domaine has been much improved in the last decade by winemaker Francois Millet, and with sales handled by Jean-Luc Pepin. All these activities are based around a very beautiful Chateau and courtyard that date back to the fifteenth century. Underneath lie the cellars. The wines express the very essence of Chambolle-Musigny. Fine, fragrant, and aristocratic wines created by perfectionists.
The de Vogüé villages wine comes mainly from a 1.8 hectares plot in the climat of Les Porlottes, close to the wood on the western side of the village, with a typical production of a little over 400 cases. The soil here covers a bed of limestone and contains many small rocks. The vines have an average age of just under 30 years. The Domaine also owns small sections totaling 0.34 ha in the Chambolle 1er Crus of Les Baudes (average 54 year-old vines) and Les Fuées whose vines average 45 years. Rather than vinify these separately they effectively declassify the resulting 1er Cru wines by choosing to blend into their single villages cuvée. Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Despite owning portions of Les Baudes and Les Fuées in addition to their holding in Amoureuses, there is actually no premier cru wine in these bottles, only the declassified juice from the young (under 25 years) Musigny vines - Musigny in short trousers as the domaine likes to call it. The first outing for this wine was the 1995 vintage - before this time quite a lot of juice was sold to the negociants. Today there are about 2.8 hectares of these young vines, producing around 500 cases of Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru per year. Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Amoureuses The highest part of the Amoureuses vineyard is separated from Musigny by a small road, it is here that the domaines' 0.56 ha holding is located. The vines average 31 years-old and produce a mere 160 or-so cases per vintage.
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