| Region | |
|---|---|
| Subregion | France > Burgundy > Côte de Nuits > Gevrey-Chambertin |
| Colour | Red |
| Type | Still |
My allegiance chez Dugat is almost always to the Griotte-Chambertin, but this year, it was the 2022 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru that dominated in our tasting. Soaring from the glass with an incipiently complex bouquet of sweet berries, cherries and plums mingled with licorice and smoke, it's full-bodied, velvety and multidimensional, with a deep core of rich, vibrant, concentrated fruit framed by beautifully refined tannins, concluding with a long, saline finish.
Here too the wood treatment is admirably discreet with its pretty, even perfumed, essence of red cherry, raspberry, spice and suggestion of forest floor character. I very much like both the intensity and the texture of the medium-bodied plus flavors that flash fine power and a very subtle bead of minerality on the dusty, austere and compact finale. This is also seriously good. (Drink starting 2034)
