2013 Chambertin Clos de Beze

Tasted blind at the Burgfest tasting in Beaune, the 2013 Chambertin Clos de Beze Grand Cru feels overdone on the nose and certainly lacks the grace and terroir expression of its peers this year. There is a lot of reduction here and it is difficult to peer through. The palate is medium-bodied with grippy tannin, rather pushed in the winery perhaps although there is satisfying weight on the finish. You feel that this could have been vastly improved with more prudence. Tasted September 2016. Nov 2016, www.robertparker.com