2005 Chapelle Chambertin
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Deep red-ruby. Wild, sexy aromas of musky dark raspberry, smoked meat and flowers. Dense, rich, thick and superconcentrated, with a powerful core of candied cherry fruit. This really saturates the palate with flavor. No doubt constituted for a long life in bottle, but today the tannins are hidden by the wine's sheer mass of fruit.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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From 50-year-old vines, a 2005 Chapelle-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes smells of intensely ripe black-raspberry and tiny Maine blueberries, comes onto the palate with a sappy, slightly resinous, pungently spicy and berryish, almost Zinfandel-like fruit personality allied to very Burgundian carnality, and finishes with dark concentration yet panache. Silky, refined tannins and an overall sleekness suggest a wine to revisit in 8-10 years as one would hate to miss out on some remaining elements of this wine’s strikingly intense primary fruit. Importer: Martine’s Wines, Novato, CA; tel. (415) 883-0400.
Bright ruby-red. Sauvage nose combines black raspberry, roast coffee, smoked meat and animal fur. Superconcentrated and wonderfully sweet, with a chewy, sappy quality and outstanding intensity of flavor. But this is much less open to inspection today than the Clos Vougeot. A reserved, highly concentrated wine with solid structure and building tannins.