2012 Chambertin Clos de Beze

Tasted blind at the annual "Burgfest" tasting in Beaune. The 2012 Chambertin Clos de Beze Grand Cru from Bruno Clair has just a touch of volatility on the nose, underneath lies some tertiary red berry fruit waiting to surface. Will it or won't it? We'll have to wait and see. The palate is medium-bodied with fine saturated tannin. Tart and edgy as it showed in barrel and yet it seems to have forsaken some of its substance that it then displayed. It is not the most persistent Clos-de-Beze in the making, but the bottom line is that it doles at the pleasure and it improves remarkably in the glass. It's not close to my perhaps over-enthusiastic assessment from barrel...but let's see what bottle age brings. Oct 2015, www.robertparker.com