2022 Chambolle-Musigny, Les Cras, 1er Cru, Domaine Ghislaine Barthod, Burgundy

This is the first wine to display any appreciable reduction and it's enough to push the underlying fruit to the background. By contrast the refined, intense and precise medium weight flavors possess that beguiling inner mouth perfume along with a pungent minerality, indeed the mouthfeel is akin to rolling tiny pebbles around the palate, all wrapped in a dusty, chalky, overtly austere and hugely long finale. This too could use better depth but that is almost certainly just a matter of letting time do its work.
93-95/100, Alan Meadows, Burghound (January 2024)