CHARMES CHAMBERTIN

Thibault uses 70% whole cluster here but cuts out the center stem with fingernail scissors, similar to Arnaud Mortet's vendange entière découpée. Twenty are on his team and each can cut through 20 kg of grapes in an hour. The resulting nose is certainly exotic with balsamic, strawberry preserves and spice drawer. Plus, the palate is very firm and woody. While it seems there is ample fruit and a broad palate here to absorb the whole cluster, it will take some time. Drinking range: 2025 - 2038 Rating: 95 Christy Canterbury MW - TimAtkin.com (Feb 2022)

(from Charmes proper). Discreet wood frames elegant, pure and exuberantly floral-suffused aromas of earth, red and dark fruit and lovely spice wisps. The equally elegant and refined middle weight plus flavors are supported by surprisingly fine tannins on the balanced, long and impressively complex finale. This is really very good; indeed after the Richebourg it’s the second most interesting wine in the range in 2020. Drinking range: 2032 - Rating: 93-95 Allen Meadows, www.Burghound.com (Jan 2022)

70% whole bunches, in the trimmed stem version. Dense black purple, and a very rich dark raspberry fruit with some black cherry. Almost exaggerated but in fact not. Thibault notes that elements of finesse became apparent later in the vinification rather than at the start which is interesting. Work at the end paid off. This becomes so much more stylish than one could imagine from the initial attack. Long classy and charming. Tasted: November 2021 Rating: 94-97 Jasper Morris - Inside Burgundy  (Jan 2022)