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TN Musigny 1949, Comte de Vogue

This is the regular de Vogue Musigny. There also was a Vieilles-Vignes version, of which I have a bottle. I mark the level of a few of my older and best wines each year. This bottle showed a significant drop in level since last year, so I decided it was time to open it before the cork likely failed. The cork in the Vieilles-Vignes still seems to be holding well.

What can I say about this legendary wine that has not been said, other than this bottle was in very good condition and without problems. One can not expect it to last forever, and it probably should be consumed fairly soon.

The color is still remarkably deep for the age, now showing some brick around the rim. The wine is extremely concentrated in every way, but has perfect balance. It is full of rich and complex dark fruit.The texture is velvety. It is somewhat meaty, and there are hints of chocolate. The finish is very long. This is one of the best wines from this estate since at least WWII, and many would call it the best. You really only have to sit back and enjoy a wine such as this. It lets you know it is something very special without much thought, analysis, deep sniffing, etc. I have had better bottles of Burgundy, but you can count them on the fingers of one hand - and most of them are La Tache.

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Thanks as always for the fascinating notes. Reading some of your notes is almost like reading Broadbent in the sense that I get at least to hear about wines that I will very likely never get to taste. One question about this one: unlike many of your other notes, you don't give the provenance of this bottle. How did you come to own such a legendary wine? Purchased at auction, or by other routes?

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Mark Lipton states: "Thanks as always for the fascinating notes. Reading some of your notes is almost like reading Broadbent in the sense that I get at least to hear about wines that I will very likely never get to taste. One question about this one: unlike many of your other notes, you don't give the provenance of this bottle. How did you come to own such a legendary wine? Purchased at auction, or by other routes?"

I bought the wine at aucion many years ago when the price was relatively reasonable. I have been building a collection of wines for about 40 years. I do not buy top wines such as this anymore, because of the extreme inflation in top wine prices. I have consumed most of my mistakes, so my older wines that remain are mostly quite good. I can remember buying 61 Lafite for about US$11 per bottle, 59 Yquem for the same, Romanee-Conti for under $50 - a very expensive wine for the time. Even considering general inflation over the years, you did not have to be rich to afford very good wine all of the time then, and you could afford top wine fairly often. A person in your position could have bought many first growth Bordeauxs then and perhaps open a bottle of one every week. In the early days I tended to buy about half of the wines for drinking fairly soon, and about half for cellaring.

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Yes, the usual story. Alas, I have only been amassing my collection for

25 years -- and I've only been buying wines from Europe for 20 -- so I missed the halcyon days of the '70s. Of course, the auction market does still provide some opportunity to purchase older bottles of undervalued wines, but the days of buying legendary bottles at auction are gone for all but the richest of collectors.

Mark Lipton

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