2015 Charmes Chambertin
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The 2015 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru is showing beautifully, unfurling in the glass with aromas of cherries, licorice, rich soil tones, espresso roast and toasty new oak. Medium to full-bodied, fleshy and elegantly enveloping, velvety tannins and bright acids frame its vibrant core of fruit and contribute appropriate back-end grip. Deep and concentrated, it's also impressively dynamic for the vintage.
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Allen Meadows, Burghound
Neal Martin
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Good medium red. Sexy but reticent aromas of black raspberry, smoke and game. More voluminous in the mouth than the Lavaux Saint-Jacques, showing excellent depth to its dark fruit flavors. Tightens up on the back end, but the firmly tannic, saline finish delivers terrific length. I may be underrating this wine.
Dark red with ruby tones. Slightly reduced nose offers red fruits, smoke and leather. Rich, sweet and concentrated, with a fine-grained texture and sappy, mouth-saturating flavors of cherry, spices and menthol. For all its sucrosité and ripeness, this wine is nicely taut. Dugat notes that this Charmes will be bottled with 12.5% natural alcohol.
(from a .33 ha parcel of 40+ year old vines in Charmes proper). Moderate reduction presently masks the underlying fruit though there is good volume and punch to the supple yet well-detailed medium-bodied flavors that culminate in a naturally sweet, balanced and strikingly persistent finish. This is very Charmes in style, which is to say seductive yet entirely serious. Dec 2016, www.burghound.com