2015 Chambolle Musigny Vieilles Vignes

(from purchased fruit from the lieux-dits Les Drazey and Les Gamaires; Lignier does the vineyard work): Bright medium red. Urgent aromas of cranberry and fresh strawberry accented by crushed stone. Juicy, spicy and pure, conveying a touch of rocky minerality and good minty lift to its red berry flavors. Finishes with a firm spine of tannins. I might have identified this very firm village wine blind as a 2014.

The 2015 Chambolle-Musigny Vieilles Vignes comes from two parcels. It has a lifted bouquet with raspberry and mulberry fruit, the 20% new oak neatly integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with crunchy red and black fruit, delicate and spicy in the mouth with a slightly austere and foursquare, almost Morey-Saint-Denis like finish. I hope that this gains more "meat on the bones" by the time it is bottled next year - I am sure it will and may then merit a higher evaluation.