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Subregion | France > Burgundy > Côte de Nuits > Gevrey-Chambertin |
Colour | Red |
Type | Still |
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A surprisingly mature but incredibly complex, seductive and broad ranging nose of earth, game, spice, pungent Gevrey earth and underbrush notes leads to rich, full and notably powerful big-bodied flavors that possess serious mid-palate concentration and huge length on the sappy and velvety finish. This is a most impressive wine as it's at once massively scaled yet elegant, pure and refined. This will probably not be a truly long distance runner in the context of the great vintages of this lengendary wine, it will still be capable of 30 to 40 years of longevity.
The medium-to-dark ruby-colored 1998 Chambertin is one of Mme. Leroy's 1998s that left me in a quandary: Will this wine blossom or dry out? It exhibits a nose of dark fruits and fresh herbs that gives way to a broad, medium-to-full-bodied character. This wine has massive layers of tarry black fruit, yet also possesses the woody, scraping tannins that may spell future doom for many wines from this vintage. Either drink it in the very near term with a dish containing lots of tannin-hiding fat, or wait 10+ years and pray.