2020 | Drouhin Joseph | Charmes Chambertin

The 2020 Charmes-Chambertin unfurls in the glass with aromas of wild berries, cherries, loamy soil and raw cocoa. Medium to full-bodied, ample and velvety, with ripe, supple tannins and lively acids, it's broad and charming, concluding with a nicely defined finish.

Reviews:

• John Gilman: Thirty-five years ago, it was the 1985 vintage of Maison Drouhin’s Charmes-Chambertin that got this young wine merchant to take note of just how good the Drouhin family’s top red Burgundies were, as I was still under the mistaken impression in those early days that small growers made superior wines to négociants. Over the years, the maison lost its former source from fruit from Charmes, but eventually found one equally fine and this has again been one of their top grand crus now for many years. The 2020 Charmes offers up a beautiful bouquet of cassis, black cherries, smoked meats, dark soil tones, espresso, a nice touch of stem spice and new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full and fairly powerful in personality for this bottling, with a rock solid core of fruit, ripe, tannins, precise focus and excellent length and grip on the nascently complex finish. This is going to be excellent, but it will demand a bit of patience.

• Burghound: What depth of colour. A wider, quite airy complexity of aroma here – a little graphite minerality in support. Wide-screen flavour again with a beautiful cool-fruit style and fine texture. There’s a little tannin here but almost no drying aspects. Small finishing bitters bring extra complexity and the width is so persistent too.

Producer Information

Joseph Drouhin is one of Burgundy's most important wine producers. Founded in Beaune in 1880, the domaine has expanded throughout the 20th Century to include vineyards in Chablis, the Côte de Nuits, the Côte de Beaune and the Côte Chalonnaise, making everything from simple, village-level cuvées to highly priced grand cru and premier cru wines from Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. The domaine was started by the eponymous Drouhin, who established the company's headquarters in the city of Beaune in the late 19th Century. His son, Maurice, began to acquire vineyards in the early 20th Century, starting with the now-iconic Clos des Mouches vineyard. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s Joseph Drouhin began to expand its land holdings in Chablis and, in 1988, the domaine established a vineyard in Oregon, in the United States. Domaine Joseph Drouhin makes several grand cru wines in the Côte d'Or and in Chablis, including ones from Musigny, Corton-Charlemagne and Les Clos, as well as the Marquis de Laguiche Montrachet Grand Cru. It also has land in some of the Côte d'Or's most famous premier cru vineyards, including Chambolle-Musigny's Les Amoureuses vineyard and in Beaune's Clos des Mouches. Joseph Drouhin makes a range of village-level and regional wines. Grapes for these are sourced from growers in the area, as well as from the domaine's own vineyards.

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