2015 Chambertin Clos de Beze Les Ouvrees Rodin
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The Chambertin Clos de Beze Ouvrees Rodin is quite a big step up in both quality and intensity … a truly magnificent wine. It’s produced from a plot with vines planted in 1966 … a special cuvee of Clos de Beze sold alongside the “standard” Clos de Beze. The nose is bursting with layers of exuberant red fruit focused and driven by a deep and intense minerality. On the palate very intense and weighty – with the most gorgeous energetic cool red fruit on the mid-palate .. it’s long, it’s refined and very intense. It offers the drive and energy that only the best 2015s have .. this is an exceptional wine. Jun 2016, www.winehog.org, Drink: 2036+
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Steen Öhman, Winehog
Allen Meadows, Burghound
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(a selection of the oldest vines in one of their 3 parcels). Here the wood and menthol influences are a good deal less subtle and while they don’t dominate the even spicier and slightly riper liqueur-like cassis, plum and herbal tea aromas, they’re certainly in the way. Otherwise the succulent and opulent massively-scaled flavors possess seemingly endless reserves of dry extract that make the mid-palate and finish of this very firmly structured and almost painfully intense effort appear almost pliant. But make no mistake as this too is very clearly built for the very long haul and I wouldn’t touch a bottle for at least 15 years and 20 may ultimately prove to be too soon. Dec 2016, www.burghound.com
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.