The 2014 Charmes-Chambertin les Mazoyères Grand Cru includes 80% whole cluster fruit this year, a high percentage due to the age of the vines planted in 1902. There is fine delineation here, precise black cherry and cranberry scents with a touch of cold granite. It is a nose that demands respect, deservedly so. The palate is medium-bodied with fine, supple black and red fruit, very pure and smooth with a graceful, marmalade-tinged finish that lingers. This should grow up to be a very seductive, comely Charmes-Chambertin with a long future ahead.
Charmes-Chambertin “Les Mazoyères” Grand Cru Reviews
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Here there is enough reduction present to recommend decanting your bottle if you plan to try one young in the interest
of “science”. There is excellent size, weight and power to the vibrant flavors that possess excellent mid-palate
concentration and while the supporting tannins are relatively fine there is some of the hallmark rusticity of
Mazoyères present on the otherwise strikingly long finish. This should thoroughly reward mid to longer-term cellaring.
This is also markedly floral though here the undertones
of soil, humus, forest floor and fallen leaves is much stronger on the assorted red berry infused nose. There is a lovely sense
of tension to the detailed but powerful and muscular big-bodied flavors that brim with dry extract on the balanced, intense and
lingering finish where the shaping tannins are quite firm but relatively fine. This too is lovely juice that should reward mid to
longer-term cellaring.
Healthy dark red. Black cherry and violet on the expressive nose, plus a complicating hint of musky torrefaction that carries through onto the palate. Tighter and sappier in the mouth than the nose suggests, showing a juicy quality as well as intriguing earth tones to the cherry and coffee flavors (this wine's pH is one of the lowest in the range of '13s here). Finishes very long, with harmonious tannins and stimulating stony minerality.