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There is just one new barrel of the 2016 Chambertin Grand Cru instead of the usual three, using 50% to 60% whole bunch. It has a linear, strict and focused bouquet, not a flamboyant Chambertin, yet well defined with tightly coiled black fruit. The palate is medium-bodied with very impressive complexity, pure and intense, mineral-driven with a sweet cassis-tinged finish that seems to go on forever. Excellent...but maybe not the best from Arnaud Mortet this year. Dec 2017, www.robertparker.com
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Down from its normal three barrels to only one in 2016, the Mortet Chambertin comes from a 0.16-hectare parcel of the Grand Cru and sees 100% new oak, such is its depth and precision. It’s a particularly fine, elegant Chambertin from the southern end of the vineyard close to the Combe Grisard. Textured, sweet and hauntingly balanced, the wine is framed by acidity rather than tannin.
About the producer
This estate, today with Arnaud Mortet at the helm, makes some of Gevrey-Chambertin’s finest wines. Working with 16 hectares, as well as a few négociant parcels, this property makes perfumed and chiselled Pinot Noir.