2010 Griotte Chambertin
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One of the high points of this tasting, Dugat's 2010 Griotte-Chambertin Grand Cru is a magical wine that remains an infant at age 12. Unwinding in the glass with a complex bouquet of red berries, plums, sweet rose petals, exotic spices and orange rind, it's full-bodied, pure and vibrant, with a deep and layered core of fruit, satiny tannins and lively acids, concluding with a long, perfumed finish. More complex than the brilliant 2009, the 2010 was likely more tightly wound out of the gates, but now it is beginning to show all its cards its benchmark quality is apparent.
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Antonio Galloni, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Saturated dark red. Purple fruit aromas are complicated by coffee and lifted by a violet topnote; less gamey than the Charmes. Very rich and concentrated but less showy than the Charmes, displaying powerful but subdued flavors of black cherry and licorice. Dense, dark grand cru with a strong spine of dusty tannins and a tangy peppery note on the back. Also more imploded than the Charmes and probably built for a longer life in bottle. The 2011 Griottes is a more feminine wine than the '11 Charmes, but this 2010 is distinctly more powerful.
The 2010 Griotte-Chambertin is cool, inward and also marvelously transparent. It is a texturally breathtaking wine graced with extraordinary finesse and class. Black cherries, mint, menthol and violets are some of the notes that emerge from the glass, but the Griotte is first and foremost a wine of superb tactile finesse and harmony.
Bright deep red. Knockout perfume of cherry, raspberry and minerals. At once silky and precise, showing the taut quality of the vintage but more give than the Charmes. Brisk acidity gives an airy quality to the middle palate. Really spreads out on the end to saturate the palate. Outstanding lift and energy here, without any impression of weightiness.