Pernand Vergelesses, lle de Vergelesses, Domaine Chandon de Briailles 2015

This site is always more elegant than Les Vergelesses below, and in 2015 it has produced a more high-toned wine, with lovely red fruit and rose petal aromas mingling with umami-like bass notes in its complex bouquet. On the palate the wine is framed by fine, rich tannins and juicy, ripe acids.

A wonderfully fresh if somewhat reticent nose grudgingly offers up very ripe notes of dark currant, earth and a pretty range of floral elements. There is once again outstanding richness to the full-bodied, muscular and relatively powerful flavors that culminate in a noticeably warm and structured finale. This is a good deal less elegant than it usually is and seems to be very much a creature of its vintage; indeed perhaps a little too much so. That said the track record of the domaine with this wine is so good that my range offers the benefit of the doubt.