Perrot-Minot Chapelle Chambertin Grand Cru - 2018

2022: This elegant and refined wine reveals a crystal-clear brightness of fruit, elevated by silky, delicate tannins. A subtle, savoury touch of iron adds a particularly mouth-watering finish.

Burghound 91-93: This is cooler and spicier with a riper yet more elegant array of dark currant, cassis, rose petal and plum scents. The suave, round and seductively textured lagerscaled flavors possess a sleek muscularity and good minerality while delivering outstanding depth and length on the velvety and sappy finish. While clearly built to age over the mid to even longer-term, it's not so imposing as to be impossible to enjoy young.

Vinous 93-95: The 2018 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru has a much bolder and more expressive nose compared to the Charmes-Chambertin, offering copious blackberry, raspberry and crushed chalk aromas that burst from the glass. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin and a fine bead of acidity. Harmonious right to the end, delivering more depth and substance than the Charmes-Chambertin. Excellent.

Burghound 92-94: This is cooler and spicier with a riper yet more elegant array of dark currant, cassis, rose petal and plum scents. The suave, round and seductively textured lager-scaled flavors possess a sleek muscularity and good minerality while delivering outstanding depth and length on the velvety and sappy finish. While clearly built to age over the mid to even longer-term, it's not so imposing as to be impossible to enjoy young.

Wine Advocate 93-95: The 2019 Chapelle-Chambertin Grand Cru is more expressive, unwinding in the glass with aromas of cassis, orange rind, potpourri and sweet soil tones. Medium to full-bodied, deep and layered, with its elegantly chalky structuring tannins largely concealed in an enveloping core of fruit, it's long and perfumed.

Vinous 94-96: The 2019 Chapelle-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru has an attractive nose with blackberry, hints of melted tar and crushed violet. Wonderful focus here, more than the Charmes-Chambertin at the moment. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, spicy and full of vim and vigour. There is a lot of coiled-up energy on the finish, the tension palpable long after the wine has departed. This oozes class.

Vinous 95-97: The 2020 Chapelle-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru has a beautifully defined bouquet, touches of basalt/crushed rock permeating the red fruit, gaining intensity with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with supple tannins, a lilting and silky smooth Chapelle-Chambertin that expands and exerts more grip towards the finish, a touch of white pepper lingering on the aftertaste. Great potential.

Vinous 93-95: The 2021 Chapelle-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru is aged in barrel until malo and then 30% in Wineglobe. The fruit is slightly darker than the Griottes and Charmes, again, well-defined with palpable mineralité. The oak is seamlessly integrated. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, taut and crisp, very tensile with a surfeit of energy enlivening the finish. Not enormously long, but this will have much to offer.

Burghound 93-96: Firm reduction. The round, delicious and seductively textured larger-bodied flavors possess excellent tension as well as outstanding concentration thanks to the abundant dry exact that imparts a sappy character to the strikingly complex, youthfully austere and hugely long finale. This is a knockout.