2015 Chambolle Musigny Les Amoureuses
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Tasting notes
The 2015 Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses 1er Cru is showing quite a lot of reduction on the nose, which is quite savory at first, with hints of dried blood infusing the black and blue fruit. The focused, well-balanced palate is full of energy, delivering very fine, supple tannin and a perfectly pitched line of acidity. It doesn’t quite deliver the complexity one would expect, although the finish is undoubtedly refined and persistent. Good potential, but it needs five years in bottle. Tasted blind at the annual Burgfest tasting.
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Neal Martin
William Kelley, Wine Advocate
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Tasted blind, Groffier's 2015 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Amoureuses showed good potential, unwinding in the glass with aromas of espresso roast, cassis, cherries and dark chocolate. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, firm and tangy, with an abundance of fine, chalky tannins and racy underlying acids. It will need some time in bottle to unwind, but it appears to be very promising.
Bright red-ruby. The nose offers a tight kernel of blackberry, black cherry and crushed stone, along with a brooding medicinal menthol character. Tighter-grained than the Haut-Doix, with its sound acidity accentuated by pungent minerality. Lively and penetrating--even a bit youthfully unyielding (stressed by drought?)--but not dry, with its dark berry flavors showing a distinctly salty element. With its terrific inner-mouth tension, strong impression of extract, and long, mounting finish, this wine will likely need extended aging. Nicolas Groffier noted that he finds this wine harder than the 2005 version and that it reminds him of the 1995.
About the producer
Domaine Robert Groffier is based in the village of Morey-Saint-Denis and is famous for having some of the most enviable sites in the Côte de Nuits, including a full hectare within Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru Les Amoureuses – one of the most fiercely collected vineyards in Burgundy.