2016 Chambolle Musigny Vieilles Vignes
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(Perrot-Minot's only Chambolle cuvée in 2016, consisting of five barrels of village wine and four of premier cru): Bright, dark red. Sexy scents of red berries, spices, wild herbs and rose petal. A step up in intensity from the village Morey, offering a seamless texture and also brisk minerality to its flavors of sappy red berries and spices. Still a bit youthfully clenched but the spicy, subtly palate-staining features lovely stony mineral grip. Perrot-Minot says that this wine does not have the breed or complexity to be bottled as premier cru owing to its moderate ripeness but it will nonetheless be a 2016 to seek out.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The 2016 Chambolle Musigny Vieilles Vignes comprises nine barrels this year, five barrels of village cru and four barrels of premier cru from vineyards such as Les Fuées and Les Baudes. It offers brambly red berry fruit on the nose, quite lively at the moment, something almost New World-like about it. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins and brings us back to Burgundy: quite tensile in the mouth, not long and perhaps requiring more vivacity on the finish. However, these is good presence here, and it should offer up to a decade of drinking pleasure.