2015 Charmes-Chambertin GrCru Les Mazoyères Øko La Vougeraie

The 2015 Charmes Chambertin les Mazoyeres Grand Cru offers up notes of red and black fruit, beetroot, earth and whole cluster spice. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, rich and silky, with an expansive attack, a layered mid- palate and a long, saline finish. This is quite stylized, marked by whole cluster fermentation which seems to give it a high pH feel, but for admirers of this particular aesthetic-a perspective my score reflects-this should offer two decades of rewarding drinking. 2020 - 2040 .

Plein et riche mais équilibré par cette perception de vendange entière, même si le volume et l'amplitude priment. Un vrai vin hédoniste.

These are the oldest vines at the domaine, a 0.73-hectare plot planted in 1902 and located entirely in Charmes-Mazoyères. Yields were low at 20 hectolitres per hectare, but this still has impressive elegance and balance, with sweet, summer pudding flavours, a chalky undertone and delicate oak integration. 2019- 28 .

Reticent, brooding aromas of kirsch and dark berries. Supple but a bit youthfully brooding in the middle palate, with blackberry, black cherry and licorice flavors coming across as a bit stunted today. Can't quite match the Bonnes-Mares for inner-mouth energy or detail, but at a crop level of 25 hectoliters per hectare, this is impressively concentrated. The darker fruit character carries through on the long finish. Aeration brought increased sweetness, spice character and pliancy, suggesting that this wine will enjoy a graceful evolution in bottle.

The 2015 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru has a feisty, rather volatile bouquet that feels feral and animally, revealing notes of sage and dried blood in the glass. The palate is sweet and candied, displaying saturated tannin and touches of gingerbread and dried fig toward a finish that does seem to gain more delineation with aeration. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting. 2020 - 2038