This is an outstanding Chambolle-Musigny that should age with style. There are just 2? barrels of the 2012 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Gruenchers this year. It has a light minerally bouquet with touches of redcurrant and cranberry fruit that are extremely well defined. The palate is well balanced with firm, slightly more obdurate tannins. Firm grip here, more masculine, one of the domaine’s vin de garde this year.

Very ripe aromas of black raspberry, rose petal and menthol. Juicy, sappy and saline; quite dry and classic but youthfully bound-up. This very high-pitched wine conveys a strong impression of earth. The longest of these 2012s to this point by far, finishing with suave tannins and noteworthy class. This has an element of inner-mouth tension that reminded me of 2010.