2005 Chambolle Musigny

The 2005 Chambolle-Musigny smells of ripe red raspberry with high-toned touches of black tea, lemon zest, iris, and horseradish. Bright, bracing and treble on the palate, it nevertheless doesn’t lack for primary sweetness of fruit and finishes long and bright, with subtly meaty, chalky undertones. This over-achieving village wine nicely combines virtues of high- and low-elevation sites. Sharing expanded wine-making facilities with her husband, Louis Boillot, Gislaine Barthod continues to render some of the purest, most expressively fruity and consistently excellent as well as ageworthy Pinots in Burgundy. All but the Bourgogne and village Chambolle – recently assembled in tank – were tasted from barrel. Importer: Rosenthal Wine Merchant, Pine Plains, NY; tel. (800) 910-1990.