The 2007 Charmes-Chambertin Grand Cru is drinking well today, offering up a rich and complex bouquet of cassis and cherries mingled with forest floor, dark chocolate and warm spices. Full-bodied, fleshy and enveloping, it's open and expressive, built around velvety and largely melted tannins, but it doesn't have the depth and concentration of the 1999 tasted alongside it, nor the purity of fruit and structural elegance of the 2017.

Wild berry, boysenberry, smoke and violet flavors highlight this effusive, jammy style. There are firm tannins to keep it all honest, and the berry notes just keep coursing through the finish. Best from 2012 through 2023. 20 cases imported. -BS