2015 Charmes-Chambertin, Grand Cru, Camille Giroud, Burgundy

Red • Medium Bodied • Pinot Noir
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Code: 20150600750008011299

Description

A whiff of wood toast combines with notes of airy and fresh red berries, earth, humus and forest floor. There is excellent richness to the full-bodied and velvet-textured flavors that possess very good if not remarkable depth and length on the well-balanced and solidly structured finale.
90-93/100, Alan Meadows, Burghound (April 2017)
  • Colour
    Red
  • Vintage
    2015
  • Alcohol
    13%
  • Grape
    Pinot Noir
  • Body
    Medium Bodied
  • Producer
    Maison Camille Giroud

Critics reviews

Allen Meadows
90-93/100

From Charmes proper

A whiff of wood toast combines with notes of airy and fresh red berries, earth, humus, and forest floor. The full-bodied and velvet-textured flavours possess an excellent richness and very good if not remarkable, depth and length in the well-balanced and solidly structured finale.

Drink from 2027 onward

Allen Meadows, Burghound.com (April 2018)
Stephen Tanzer
88-91/100

The 2015 Charmes-Chambertin is a soft-open knit wine with a mid-weight structure and good overall persistence. This is the only wine in the range I tasted from tank. Perhaps for that reason, the Charmes is a bit reticent. It will be interesting to see if the wine gains more volume. The decision to move this wine into tank and bottle it early, suggests it may not have the depth of the best wines in the range.

Drink 2020 - 2035

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous.com (January 2017)

About The Wine

Pinot Noir

Pinot Noir is probably the most frustrating and, at times, infuriating wine grape in the world. However, when it is successful, it can produce some of the most sublime wines known to man. This thin-skinned grape, which grows in small, tight bunches, performs well on well-drained, deepish limestone-based subsoils. It is more susceptible than other varieties to overcropping - concentration and varietal character disappear rapidly if yields are excessive, and yields as little as 25hl/ha are the norm for some climats of Burgundy's Côte d'Or.
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Burgundy

The region is home to some of the world's finest Grand Cru and Premier Cru wines, commonly called 'Burgundies'. Made from Pinot Noir, the reds are dry and full-bodied with silky tannins. Conversely, using Chardonnay to produce whites helps generate elegant, complex, and citrussy wines with fresh butter and toast notes.
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