CHAMBOLLE MUSIGNY
2018 1er Cru Les Amoureuses Domaine Joseph Drouhin
40% whole bunch. From two parcels, one next to Le Musigny, one just below it. After the Grands Échezeaux, a cooler, bluer colour and on the nose fresher, tighter. Compact, sappy and close-textured, with rtight, fine-grained tannins. Sensational suave purity.L&S (Nov 2019)
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This is perhaps the most floral-infused wine in the range with terrific layering that includes perfumed notes of exotic tea, clove, red and dark fruit and a whiff of sandalwood. The refined, markedly stony and wonderfully delineated flavors possess a beguiling underlying tension before culminating in a palate coating, balanced and firm finale. This is exceptionally classy and I very much like the Zen-like sense of harmony. In short, this is a knockout. Drinking range: 2030 - Rating: 95 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Apr 2020)
The 2018 Chambolle-Musigny Les Amoureuses 1er Cru, matured with 40% whole bunch, has an intense, feisty bouquet with hints of fresh prune permeating the red and blue fruit; precocious floral scents emerge with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin and very refined (more so than the aromatics at the moment). The multifaceted, satin-like finish lingers long in the mouth. Not the very best Les Amoureuses that I have encountered from Drouhin at this stage, but it delivers exactly what this wine should offer. Drinking range: 2023 - 2045 Rating: 93-95 Neal Martin, www.vinous.com (Jan 2020)
Veronique Drouhin and her team have excelled here: clove and pepper spice from 40% whole bunches, 30% new wood and fine, fluid red berry flavours that glide across the tongue like a figure skater on ice. A Pinot lover's Pinot Noir. Drinking range: 2024 - 2033 Rating: 95 Tim Atkin MW - Decanter (Dec 2019)
Deep cherry red. Seductive dark-red fruit. Very ripe cherry but the fruit smells fresh not jammy. Both spice and a light floral note as well. Chewy, dense and yet over-delivers on generous fruit even with all this tannin framework. The tannins are the freshness here, it seems. Dry and refined. Not typical perhaps but very good. Drinking range: 2028 - 2038 Rating: 17.5 Julia Harding MW, www.JancisRobinson.com (Dec 2019)
Domaine Joseph Drouhin
Joseph Drouhin, founded in 1880 and still family owned, are one of the most well-respected names in Burgundy, especially through their flagship wine, the iconic Clos des Mouches.
A huge part of the Drouhin production comes from their own domaine fruit (78 hectares), and much of the rest comes from contracts such as that with the Marquis de Laguiche, who shook hands with the grandfather of the current generation, agreeing to let him manage his vineyards which included an important part of Le Montrachet; this collaboration endures. Today, the fourth generation is at the helm
Small refinements continue to be made here. The presses have been changed - a reversion to basket pressing for the reds, and for whites the presses are open - along with a number of other growers they are following the trend to think that slight oxidation of the juice before fermentation is not a problem and may add complexity as well as avoiding later problems of premature oxidation in bottle.
For the reds there has been the introduction of selective whole-bunch fermentation in the Côte de Nuits wines. The house style remains one that 'emphasises the natural elegance of great Burgundies' as they describe it. The domaine is all cultivated with an organic and biodynamic approach.
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