2007 Domaine Charmes-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru
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The 2007 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru from Domaine Perrot-Minot offered red cherries, iodine and inkwell scents on the nose, perhaps not quite as delineated as Perrot-Minot’s current releases. The palate is built around a sweet core of morello and raspberry preserves and hints of cassis. The confit-like finish intimates that a slightly earlier picking might have been beneficial. Still, this is drinking perfectly now, though I would not keep it more than four or five years.
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Neal Martin
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Good dark red. Explosive aromas of rose petal, musky minerality and underbrush. Sweet and open-knit, with considerable early sex appeal to its soil-inflected flavors. Very deep, pliant wine with perfectly integrated acidity. The tannins are sweeter than those of the 2008, which is more peppery and also at least as long.
Good deep red. Explosive, smoky aromas of black raspberry, spices and faded rose, plus a hint of white flowers. Sweet, fat, round and chewy, conveying strong soil tones but currently hiding its fruit. But this slowly building wine boasts impressive volume, and the dusty tannins arrive late.