2015 Chambolle Musigny Combe d'Orveaux

(50% new oak; 25% vendange entier ; from very thin stony soil): Healthy dark red. Very ripe but reduced aromas of raspberry, black cherry and smoky, flinty minerality, plus a light meaty nuance; almost liqueur-like in the context of this collection. Plush, silky and dense but youthfully reduced, showing considerably more flesh to support its serious tannins than the Charmes. With time in the glass, notes of cherry and flowers emerged, along with subtle soil tones. Finishes with serious but fine-grained horizontal tannins and lovely lingering sweetness.

This too is sufficiently reduced to push the underlying fruit to the background. By contrast there is an equally refined mouth feel to the highly seductive and tension-filled medium weight flavors that ooze a fine bead of minerality on the velvety finish that just goes on and on. This is first-rate and highly recommended plus it should drink well after only 5-ish years or so of bottle age but amply reward 10+. Dec 2016, www.burghound.com