2011 Domaine Faiveley Chambolle-Musigny La Combe d'Orveau
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Bright medium red. Musky redcurrant, leather and game on the nose, complicated by a saline quality. Smooth and plump in the mouth, offering good balance to its moderately intense flavors of minerals, spices and earth. This wine started out youthfully stunted but with 24 hours in the recorked bottle higher-pitched notes of raspberry and blood orange emerged. Not at all showy today but should reward four or five years of cellaring.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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(25% vendange entier; the lieu-dit is Petit Musigny): Medium red. Raspberry, pungent smoky minerality and truffley underbrush on the perfumed nose. Juicy, tactile and saline, with musky red raspberry fruit complicated by crushed-stone minerality. Mounts impressively on the chewy aftertaste.
A pungent combination of reduction and wood make for a difficult nose. By contrast, the natural refinement of a fine Combe d’Orveau is very much on display with really lovely mineral-driven flavors that possess plenty of underlying tension that imparts a real sense of vitality to the lilting finish that is also underpinned by silky tannins. Lovely stuff and well worth considering. 90-93 points.