Chapelle Chambertin, Cecile Tremblay 2015

Tremblay's 2015 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru is certainly making my review just after bottling seem conservative today. Soaring from the glass with a deep and complex bouquet of red cherries, wild berries, exotic spices, smoked meats, loamy soil and peonies, it's full-bodied, layered and enveloping, with huge depth at the core, vibrant acids and beautifully ripe tannins. Long and resonant, it's going from strength to strength with bottle age, and it's far less introverted than many 2015s today.

The 2015 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru is more reserved than the flamboyant Echézeaux, opening in the glass with notes of dark plums, cassis, dried flowers, subtle grilled meat and a creamy framing of new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, deep and concentrated, with a stricter vertical line after the more expansive Echézeaux, and an ample chassis of ripe, fine-grained tannins that gently assert themselves on the long, racy finish. This is a fabulous rendition of Chapelle-Chambertin that ranks as one of Tremblay's best to date.