2016 Chapelle Chambertin
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Bright, dark red with ruby highlights. Very rich, deep aromas of small wild dark fruits, tobacco and earth lifted by floral and spicy high notes. Plush, seamless, silky wine offering captivating sweetness and impressive volume without any heaviness. In fact, the dark fruit and savory soil flavors convey a remarkable lightness. The palate-staining, spicy finish leaves the taste buds vibrating.
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The Wine Advocate
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The 2016 Chapelle-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru, which lost half its production due to frost, has quite an intense bouquet with slightly darker fruit than Perrot-Minot's Charmes-Chambertin: raspberry mingling with blackcurrant and blueberry. With aeration in the glass, it becomes quite floral and offers attractive wilted violet petal scents. The palate is medium-bodied with fine-grain tannin. I love the balance and poise of this Chapelle-Chambertin, nothing too extroverted or showy, just all about the tension and the mineralité that comes through on the finish.