Packed with tannins and boasting an enormous structure, this wine is opulent while very firm. At the same time, smoky acidity shoots through all this density. From a great terroir, this wine shows minerality and its great structure well. Drink from 2023.

(WA91-93 points) The 2013 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru has a tightly-wound bouquet: raspberry preserve, crushed strawberry, a touch of truffle and forest-floor scents (perhaps a hint of ceps coming through). The palate is medium-bodied with supple, ripe tannins and good acidity. This is very harmonious and sleek in the mouth, although I would have liked more personality to come through on the finish, that, like the Charmes-Chambertin, is showing a lot of wood at present. - Neal Martin

Firm reduction pushes the underlying fruit to the background and even extended aeration didn’t completely dissipate the funk though it did help. The old vines are very much in evidence as there is an abundance of dry extract coating the palate and buffering the firm tannic spine that shapes both the big-bodied flavors as well as the muscular, balanced and gorgeously persistent if almost aggressively austere finish. This should age for a very long time though I doubt that charming is ever going to be a descriptor used in reference to this wine. 2030+

Offering a rigid block of cherry and raspberry flavors, with solid tannins, this red is seemingly impenetrable now. All the components are there and the finish is long, so have faith. Best from 2019 through 2033. 100 cases imported.–BS