2008 Chambertin Clos de Beze
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Faiveley's 2008 Chambertin Clos de Bèze Grand Cru is drinking beautifully, wafting from the glass with a deep and complex bouquet of wild berries, candied peel, musk, black truffle, rose hip and rich loamy soil. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, ample and enveloping, with melting tannins, a succulent core of sumptuously degraded fruit, ripe but racy acids and a long, intensely sapid finish. Picked in October, and only the second vintage in Faiveley's new and less extractive stylistic register, this Clos de Bèze is only 11 years old, but already it harks back to a past era of later, cooler harvests.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Medium red. Multidimensional nose offers red fruits, menthol, smoked ham and wild herbs. Silky and tactile but classically dry. This showy, glyceral wine comes across as almost weightless, thanks to a powerful impression of smoky minerality. With aeration this very long and savory wine showed a compelling deep sweetness. But I wouldn't go near a bottle for at least eight years.
Bright medium red. Initially reticent aromas of wild red berries and medicinal herbs are joined by a note of cherry liqueur as the wine opens in the glass. Silky, sweet and light on its feet; conveys explosive inner-mouth perfume, with a powerful crushed stone element contributing sappy energy. The longest and strongest on the back end of these 2008s to this point, with the berry and crushed stone flavors complicated by a savory character. I find this quite unforthcoming today, but this was nonetheless slated to be bottled in December. It will require a good decade of cellaring and should be very long-lived.
About the producer
Domaine Faiveley is one of Burgundy’s most important wine producers. The family-owned estate, now in the hands of the seventh generation, is one of the largest in the region, with significant holdings in both the Côte d’Or and the Côte Chalonnaise.