FLOAT 100 · Wine · No. 89
Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue Musigny Vieilles Vignes 2017
One family has held its vines in Chambolle-Musigny since 1450 and owns most of the Musigny grand cru, and in 2017, a year that left much of France short of wine, its old vines gave so freely that even they had to be thinned.
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- Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue
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- Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue, Chambolle-Musigny, Burgundy
- Appellation
- Musigny Grand Cru, Cote de Nuits
- Cuvee
- Vieilles Vignes (old vines); younger Musigny vines go into a Chambolle-Musigny premier cru
- Grape
- Pinot Noir
- Domaine's Musigny holding
- About 7.2 hectares; sources give 7.12 to 7.5
- Musigny vineyard
- 10.32 hectares (some sources give 10.85)
- Average vine age
- About 40 to 41 years in the Vieilles Vignes
- 2017 harvest
- Began September 2, 2017
- Winemaker
- Francois Millet, the domaine's winemaker from 1986
- Family roots
- Since 1450, through about 20 generations
The family that owns Musigny
Musigny is a grand cru of 10.32 hectares in the village of Chambolle-Musigny, in the Cote de Nuits. Its boundaries were fixed in 1929 and it became an appellation in 1936. It takes its name from a de Musigny family who served at the Burgundian court from the 14th century. It is the only grand cru in the Cote de Nuits that makes both red and white wine, though red is more than 90 percent of the output. In 2008 the vineyard produced about 41,000 bottles, some 38,000 of them red.
Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue is by far its largest owner, with about 7.2 hectares. Sources disagree on the exact share: one profile says roughly 70 percent of the cru, another 80 percent, and recent figures for the domaine's holding range from 7.12 to 7.5 hectares. By contrast, two of Musigny's most famous small producers make fewer than 300 bottles a year each.
The domaine traces itself to 1450 and to Jean Moisson, an ancestor of the de Vogue family, and ownership has passed through about 20 generations without leaving the family. In 1925 Comte Georges de Vogue inherited the vineyards from his father, Arthur, and the domaine took his name.
The team behind the 2017
From the late 1980s until 2002, Comte Georges's daughter, Elisabeth de Ladoucette, ran the domaine and assembled the team that made its modern reputation. Her daughters, Claire de Causans and Marie de Ladoucette, are the current owners.
Francois Millet made the wine from 1986, working alongside Jean-Luc Pepin, who handled sales from 1988, and Eric Bourgogne, in charge of the vineyards from 1996. Under Millet the grand crus saw no more than about a third new oak. Jean Lupatelli, formerly an oenologist at another Burgundy house, joined in mid-April 2021 and worked alongside Millet for nearly three months before taking over; he promised not to revolutionize everything.
The vineyard team farms with treatments acceptable for organic certification without being certified, and prunes late, in March, to let the vines weep sap and block the entry of fungus. The domaine reserves the Musigny name for its older vines, with an average age around 40 years; wine from the younger Musigny vines is sold as Chambolle-Musigny premier cru.
2017: generous, after a lean year
Across France, 2017 was a frost-hit year and the country's smallest harvest since 1945. Chambolle-Musigny had plenty of grapes. After the short 2016 crop, a good flowering produced large bunches, and the main task at the domaine was to keep yields in check.
Francois Millet told a visitor that the vineyards made up some volume after 2016, and that even the old vines needed green harvesting, the removal of bunches in summer. There were few small, seedless berries. The domaine began picking on September 2, 2017, two days earlier than its 2015 harvest began. The wines were bottled between January and April.
Tasted beside the 2018 in 2019, the 2017 Musigny Vieilles Vignes was the more open of the two, with a persistent coffee-bean aroma and dynamic flavors, less overt weight than the domaine's Bonnes-Mares but, in that taster's words, more of everything else. He called it a great wine that would show well long before the 2018.
What the critics found
Published notes on the 2017 describe a wide range of fruit. One finds cherries, rose petal, warm spices and orange rind framed by creamy new oak, a full-bodied, velvety wine with the greatest depth of any in the cellar and striking length. Another describes an openly exotic nose of black cherry liqueur, ginger, tea, sandalwood and orange peel, and says it will need at least 15 years to reach its peak. A third compares its silky texture to Romanee-Saint-Vivant.
Retail listings quote critic scores for the 2017 from 91 to 97 points, including 95 from the Wine Advocate, but different listings attach the same scores and notes to different critics, so individual scores are not given here.
The white Musigny and the label
The domaine also owns about 0.66 hectares of Chardonnay in Musigny, in both the main vineyard and Les Petits Musigny. After those vines were replanted, it declassified the white wine to plain Bourgogne for 22 vintages, until it judged the quality worthy of a grand cru. The white Musigny label returned with the 2015 vintage, about 2,300 bottles.
The red Musigny carries the words Cuvee Vieilles Vignes on the label. Besides Musigny, the domaine makes Bonnes-Mares from about 2.7 hectares, Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses from 56 ares, smaller premier cru plots in Les Baudes and Les Fuees, and Chambolle-Musigny village. Total production across the range is about 40,000 to 45,000 bottles a year.
In October 2026 one merchant listed a bottle of the 2017 Musigny Vieilles Vignes at $837.00, sold in multiples of three. That is an asking price, not a sale.
The numbers
- Musigny vineyard
- 10.32 ha (some sources give 10.85)
- De Vogue holding
- About 7.2 ha (sources give 7.12 to 7.5)
- Average vine age (VV)
- About 40 to 41 years
- Blend
- 100% Pinot Noir
- 2017 harvest start
- September 2, 2017
- New oak under Millet
- No more than about one third for the grand crus
- Domaine production
- About 40,000 to 45,000 bottles a year, all wines
Timeline
The family domaine traces its beginnings to Jean Moisson.
Comte Georges de Vogue inherits the vineyards and gives the domaine his name.
Musigny's boundaries are legally defined.
Musigny becomes a grand cru appellation.
Francois Millet becomes the domaine's winemaker.
Jean-Luc Pepin joins to run sales.
Eric Bourgogne takes charge of the vineyards.
Elisabeth de Ladoucette's period running the domaine ends; her daughters now own it.
The white Musigny label returns after 22 declassified vintages.
The domaine begins its 2017 harvest.
The 2017 Musigny Vieilles Vignes is tasted beside the 2018 at the domaine.
Jean Lupatelli arrives to succeed Francois Millet.
A merchant lists a bottle of the 2017 at $837.00.
The world in 2017
Millions join the Women's March worldwide after Donald Trump's inauguration.
Emmanuel Macron wins the French presidential election.
The Grenfell Tower fire in West London kills 72 people.
Astronomers observe a collision of two neutron stars for the first time.
A total solar eclipse crosses the entire contiguous United States.
Hurricane Harvey strikes Texas as a Category 4 storm.
The Cassini probe ends its 13-year mission by plunging into Saturn.
Price record
This is an asking price, not a sale. It is what a seller wanted on the date shown. Asking prices often sit above what buyers pay, but an ask is not a ceiling: a sale can land on either side of it. It is not a value.
By reference price, Domaine Comte Georges de Vogue Musigny Vieilles Vignes 2017 is number 51 of 100 in the wine entries of the FLOAT 100. 12 of those 100 rest on a realized sale; the rest carry an asking price or a guide value, and each page says which. Rank within the FLOAT 100 itself (89 here) is editorial: how much an object defines its field, not price alone.
Did you know
- The de Vogue family has held its Chambolle-Musigny vines since 1450.
- Musigny is the only grand cru in the Cote de Nuits that makes both red and white wine.
- De Vogue declassified its white Musigny for 22 vintages before putting the name back on the label with the 2015.
- In 2017 even the domaine's old Musigny vines carried so much fruit that bunches had to be cut off in summer.
- The 2017 harvest that was generous in Chambolle-Musigny came in a year when France as a whole had its smallest crop since 1945.
- Wine from de Vogue's younger Musigny vines is sold as premier cru rather than under the grand cru name.
How this page is made
- The figure
- One reference price, shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. An asking price, an estimate and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- The story
- Researched from published records and checked fact by fact. Updated Oct 3, 2026.
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