2017 | Drouhin Joseph | Chambertin Clos de Beze

Crazy aromas of smoked meat, white pepper, dried fruit, orange peel and flowers. Full body, round and chewy tannins and a flavorful and intense finish.

Reviews:

• Vinous: The 2017 Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze Grand Cru includes 40% whole cluster fruit and contains both estate and purchased fruit. It has a lovely bouquet of dark berry fruit laced with bergamot and undergrowth aromas, beautifully defined, with real Pinoté shining through. The palate is medium-bodied with sappy red berry fruit. There is wonderful balance here, and a subtle spiciness comes through on the finish. This is one of Drouhin’s best 2017 reds.

• John Gilman: The 2017 Chambertin “Clos de Bèze” from Maison Joseph Drouhin this year is a combination of the domaine’s own fruit and some purchased grapes. The wine includes forty percent whole clusters and was a cask sample at the time of our tasting. The bouquet is nicely reserved in profile and very complex, offering up scents of red and black cherries, gorgeous spice tones, mustard seed, grilled meats, a fine base of soil, a touch of youthful stems, woodsmoke, raw cocoa and smoky new oak. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied and pure, with a sappy core, velvety tannins and lovely length and grip on the complex and very promising finish. This is not as overtly sappy and seductive out of the blocks as the stunning 2017 Charmes-Chambertin, but it may well catch up with it in the fullness of time.

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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