2013 Charmes Chambertin

Dujac's 2013 Charmes-Chambertin boasts serious intensity in its fruit backed up by equally imposing tannins. The flavors tend toward the darker end of the spectrum, while the overall structural feel suggests this is a Burgundy for the cellar. Overall, this is a tremendous showing from the Charmes. Dujac's Charmes is a blend of fruit from Charmes and Mazoyères.

(four of the seven barrels were new prior to the racking, at which point the wine was put into all older barrels; 60% vendange entier ): Good full red. Red cherry, cranberry, rose petal and sweet oak on the nose. Silky on entry, then tighter in the middle, even a bit hard-edged, with black fruit and licorice flavors carrying through to a firmly tannic, gripping, youthfully tough finish. This sappy, dense wine, a blend of roughly two-thirds Charmes and one-third Mazoyères, has the energy to support a leisurely evolution in bottle.