2005 Chambolle Musigny Les Sentiers
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Deep, bright red-ruby. Wild aromas of black raspberry, mocha and mace. Rich and fat but a bit youthfully monolithic, showing more game and spice than fruits and flowers today. Much more closed and tannic than the Hauts-Doix. This appears to be in the process of shutting down.
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Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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The Groffier 2005 Chambolle-Musigny Les Sentiers offers sweet and at the same time tart black cherry and black raspberry, black tea and blond tobacco, taking on a faintly bitter herbal edge in its finish of humus and caramel-tinged black fruits. This displays formidable density and lightly cooked fruit intensity quite in contrast with the personality of the Hauts Doix but it is much less winsome today, and seems to want yet more time in the cellar, perhaps 5-7 years to permit proper assessment. A Peter Vezan Selection (various importers), Paris; fax 011 33 1 42 55 42 93.
Good red-ruby. Sexy aromas of black raspberry and roast coffee torrefaction. A step up in intensity and length from the Haut-Doix, showing a sappier dark fruit, smoke and earth character and more nerve and spine. Firmly structured wine with fine-grained tannins and finishing notes of briary berries and mocha.
About the producer
Domaine Robert Groffier is based in the village of Morey-Saint-Denis and is famous for having some of the most enviable sites in the Côte de Nuits, including a full hectare within Chambolle-Musigny Premier Cru Les Amoureuses – one of the most fiercely collected vineyards in Burgundy.