2015 Chambolle Musigny

Not yet bottled. Warm, cherry jam on well-done rye toast. Super-intense sweet deep thick fruit with velvety tannins. This wine is warm: cashmere scarf. Dark spices. Generous and refined. (TC)

The 2015 Chambolle-Musigny Village has a lovely pure red cherry and boysenberry-scented bouquet, quite sleek and modern but it retains sufficient delineation and freshness. The palate is medium-bodied with fine backbone, well balanced and poised with more terroir expression than some of the premier crus. Enjoy this over the next decade.

Bright medium ruby. Black fruits and espresso on the nose. Supple on entry, then a bit simple in the middle palate, offering flavors of black raspberry and chocolate; hard to taste following the two Corton grand crus, even a bit neutral in terms of its flavor interest. There's less mid-palate stuffing here to support the slightly tough tannins. Perhaps overextracted.