2015 Latricieres Chambertin

Good medium red. Subtle, deeply pitched nose combines dark berries, violet and a sexy, slightly wild smoky quality. Wonderfully rich and suave in the style of the vintage's best examples, but with surprising energy to frame the flavors of purple fruits, violet, earth and game. I love this wine's combination of sucrosité and whole-cluster (40%) pungency. The slowly-rising finish saturates the palate with fine-grained tannins and subtle, building minerality.

Medium red. More complex and perfumed on the nose and palate than the Chapelle, offering elements of redcurrant, ripe cherry, menthol, licorice, animal fur and game birds. Cooler and finer-grained in the mouth than the Chapelle, communicating a magically light touch to its sappy red fruit and saline mineral flavors. This beautifully balanced wine finishes classically dry and vibrant, with slowly mounting length.

The 2015 Latricières-Chambertin Grand Cru cannot quite match its "sister", the Chapelle-Chambertin, in terms of precision and energy on the nose, here more conservative as you would expect—more correct and well behaved with its blackberry and raspberry leaf aromas, though there is still fine mineralité. The palate is very well balanced with crisp acidity, notes of cold stone, hints of dried blood tincturing the black fruit with that energy filtering through on the finish. This is composed and utterly charming.