Flavors of spice, floral, tobacco and mineral swirl around the core of cherry in this intense, vivid red. The dusty tannins quickly assert themselves, yet the fruit, spice and mineral elements hold fast. Offers a tangy, mouthwatering finish. Best from 2023 through 2045. — B.S.

(91-94) This is aromatically more elegant if perhaps not quite as ripe as the Cazetiers with its herbal tea, forest floor, red cherry and softly spicy and earthy aromas. The supple, round and delicious flavors possess a seductive mouth feel but with more size, weight and mid-palate concentration that helps to buffer the firmer tannic spine on the balanced and harmonious finale. Lovely and I like the complexity here.

(93+) It is interesting, given all of the sappy red fruit tones in the wines served ahead of the 2015 Charmes-Chambertin, to find how black fruity this wine is this year. The bouquet is deep and very pure, wafting from the glass in a mix of black cherries, sweet dark berries, bitter chocolate, grilled meat, dark soil tones and a topnote of woodsmoke. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and tangy, with a rock solid core, ripe, perfectly-integrated tannins and a very long, tangy and youthful finish. This is a spitting image of the young 1993 Charmes, with perhaps just a bit more mid-palate stuffing. (Drink between 2025-2075)