2016 Lucien Le Moine Chambolle-Musigny Les Hauts-Doix 1er Cru

Bright medium ruby. Very dark, discreet scents of black raspberry, crème de cassis , licorice and flowers; rather Musigny-like. Densely packed, intense and energetic, boasting terrific savory minerality and inner-mouth violet lift. There's no easy sweetness here but this wine communicates a crystalline quality and finishes with slowly mounting length and utterly noble tannins. Amazingly, the yield was normal in 2016; in fact, Saouma told me that the grower actually carried out a green harvest.