Starts out elegant, then intensifies as it unfolds across the palate. A touch green, with a sweet, sawed-pine note and a beam of cherry and red currant. There are firm tannins, but the lasting impression is one of sweet fruit. Best from 2013 through 2028. 350 cases made, 100 cases imported. — BS

A clear step up in aromatic complexity with a wonderful range of spice nuances, including anise, clove and cinnamon plus ripe dark and gamy fruit aromas where the sense of the sauvage continues onto the rich, full and sweet flavors that possess outstanding volume and power. This is a bruiser of a Chambertin but it's not rustic and I particularly like the mouth coating sappiness on the impressively long finish