A markedly more floral-suffused nose features notes of black pinot fruit, exotic tea and a whiff of oak toast. Once again I very much like the texture of the sleeker and finer medium weight flavors that exude a subtle minerality on the firm but refined fi...
The 2022 Gevrey-Chambertin Les Cazetiers 1er Cru has the ripest and most sensual of Magnien's cuvées on the nose, adorned with lush red cherry, raspberry and light fig scents. There's a soupçon of exoticism in situ. The palate is medium-bodied with pli...
Firm reduction renders the nose impossible to assess today. More interesting are the delicious, seductive and caressing medium-bodied flavors that possess better mid-palate density as well as a bit better depth and persistence on the mildly warm finale.
The 2022 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru has a more generous and expressive bouquet than the Clos de Vougeot: black cherries and wild strawberries, just a bit of reduction to wade through at the moment. The palate is medium-bodied with a sapid, quite structu...
An intensely floral, especially rose petal-suffused nose speaks of a ripe mix of red currant, black cherry and whiffs of kirsch and warm earth. Yet again the medium-bodied flavors possess a gorgeous texture with good power that seems to build on the dusty...
Moderate reduction is enough to overshadow the underlying fruit at present. More interesting are the rich, delicious and beautifully textured and detailed larger-bodied flavors that brim with both minerality and dry extract, all wrapped in a youthfully au...
A timid but perfumed nose speaks of softly spicy ripe red berry aromas where hints of smoke and earth lurk in the background. There is again excellent volume to the succulent and seductive yet equally powerful flavors that flash a bead of minerality on th...