2016 Vosne Romanee Les Chaumes
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The 2016 Vosne-Romanée Les Chaumes 1er Cru has an expressive bouquet with blackberry, raspberry, quite floral with touches of orange blossom surfacing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannin. There is plenty of matière here with a masculine, spicy and saline finish that appears to have gained length since I tasted it in barrel. This is very promising. Tasted at the Domaine.
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Domaine wine. Smells a bit cheesy and with real grip and structure. Really quite exciting. Bitter cherries. Impressively long. (JR)
(Méo believed he'd get 20% less than a normal crop, but the eventual yield of 40 hectoliters per hectare was actually higher than average): Raspberry and coffee aromas are accented by licorice and pepper notes and complicated by a light leesy quality. Juicy but youthfully imploded red berry flavors are lifted by spices; slightly high-toned in a positive way. Finishes saline and classically dry, with a redcurrant note. Méo told me the vintage was deceiving here: there was no frost but he "didn't see a crop until the very end."
The 2016 Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Chaumes was completely destemmed has a tightly wound bouquet, bright red cherry and crushed strawberry fruit, hints of rose petal and bay leaf. With aeration there is just a suggestion of obduracy, remaining linear and more reticent than its siblings. The palate is well balanced with fine tannin. It is not a deep or voluminous Vosne-Romanée, but it is fine-boned with a tightly wound finish that pulls up a little earlier than the other premier crus. Nevertheless, I would still give this 3 to 4 years in bottle to see its potential.