Lucien Le Moine, Chambertin Clos De Beze Vintage:2020

Lucien Le Moine, Chambertin Clos De Beze Vintage:2020This too is firmly reduced. There is almost painful intensity to the beautifully delineated and mineral driven broad shouldered flavors that possess a highly refined textured before culminating in an almost crisp, moderately austere and wonderfully persistent finale that is quite firmly structured. This is a bit atypical but no less attractive for it and a Bze that should amply reward a decade plus of cellaring. Lovely.

One of the more backwards

(from 11 different parcels totaling 1

This isn’t a classic example of a steely Caillerets but rather one that should drink well young and repay a few years of cellaring too

It will continue to open up over the next 10-12 years and drink well through 2040 in the style of a Chapoutier Hermitage

there are just two barrels of this magical Pinot to go around

Long and complex

Composed of 68% Cabernet Sauvignon

all wrapped in a mildly austere and persistent finish

before being bottled unfined and unfiltered

40% whole cluster

Anticipated maturity

There is a fabulous purity to the fruit and a lushness to the texture that lets you know