94+ Monsieur Mortet produced a more extracted style of red Burgundy during his days at the head of the family domaine, and this is not usually a style that I gravitate towards, but I quite liked this bottle of his 1999...
94+ Monsieur Mortet produced a more extracted style of red Burgundy during his days at the head of the family domaine, and this is not usually a style that I gravitate towards, but I quite liked this bottle of his 1999 Chambertin. The bouquet is deep, pure and still a bit on the youthful side, as it offers up scents of roasted black cherries and plums, grilled meat, cocoa, a lovely base of soil, woodsmoke and a well-done base of toasty new wood. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and nascently complex, with a beautiful core of sappy fruit, ripe tannins and fine length and grip on the tangy and nascently complex finish. It is still early days for this wine, but it is very well-balanced and not a bad drink today in its relative youth. A very well-made example.