2019 Charmes Chambertin

The 2019 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru has turned out brilliantly, soaring from the glass with scents of cherries and sweet berries mingled with warm spices, licorice, rose petals and peonies. Full-bodied, layered and seamless, it's sensual and enveloping, with a succulent core of fruit, terrific concentration and a long, perfumed finish. Elegant and complete, this is as fine a Charmes-Chambertin as I can remember tasting chez Dugat, and while it's almost disconcertingly approachable young, it should enjoy a long life.

The 2019 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru is fragrant on the nose of quite opulent scents of iodine and cassis fruit, although personally I find a little more style and harmony on the Lavaux Saint-Jacques. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy black fruit on the entry and impressive weight. Redolent of Denis Bachelet in style, and silky-smooth on the finish, conveying wonderful terroir expression and brimming with coiled-up fruité . Very persistent on the aftertaste. This is an excellent Charmes-Chambertin.

A brooding nose grudgingly offers up notes of plum, spice, dark berries and plenty of earth character, all of which is trimmed in oak nuances. The supple, more refined and well-detailed medium weight flavors possess a caressing mouthfeel though there is excellent intensity to the sappy, saline and equally long finale.