2023 Domaine Denis Bachelet Charmes Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru
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Tim Atkin
Reviewed October 2024Exuberantly aromatic with sweet black plums, forest berries and violets. Juicy and vinous, this has vivacious, refreshing acidity and succulent, seamless tannins. The two-thirds new oak offers light espresso tones. The panache is bewitching. This is equally intellectual and pleasurable. One of the wines of the vintage.
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John Gilman
The 2023 Charmes-Chambertin “Vieilles Vignes” from Domaine Bachelet was one of the finest young red wines I tasted on my entire trip. The bouquet is deep, youthful and so very promising, offering up scents of cassis, sweet dark berries, grilled meats, coffee bean, woodsmoke, a beautifully complex base of soil tones, currant leaf and cedary oak. On the palate the wine is pure, full-bodied and shows stunning depth of sappy black fruit at the core, with excellent soil signature, ripe, fine-grained tannins, seamless balance and a very, very long, pure and precise finish. This is still a baby and will need a long time in the cellar, but it is going to be pure magic once it is ready to drink! 2040-2100.
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Vinous
The 2023 Charmes-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru comprises eight and a half barrels this year (there are just three in 2024). Crisp and poised, it has life-affirming clarity on the nose, gently unfolding with predominantly black cherry and raspberry fruit, a hint of salted licorice lingering in the background. The palate is so silky on the entry that you are beholden from the first sip, but there is immense structure behind this Charmes-Chambertin. Perhaps I would have liked a little more red fruit and Pinoté on the finish, but this is certain to evolve magnificently in bottle. Excellent, as usual. Drink: 2030-2060.
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Jasper Morris
The Charmes-Chambertin has an exceptionally dense colour, black at the centre with a purple edge. Very dense floral black and red raspberry with a good lacing of oak. Absolutely fills the middle of the palate, with a luxurious long finish. Plenty of refined tannins here too. Still building, Denis thinks all the wines need more elevage, and I would agree that the Charmes most certainly does.
Notes
From a tiny family domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin, this old-vine Pinot Noir is the estate's flagship grand cru. Denis Bachelet took charge in 1983, building the domaine's reputation around meticulous vineyard work and small-scale production.
Details
| Type | Red Wine |
|---|---|
| Varietal | Pinot Noir |
| Origin | Gevrey Chambertin, Burgundy, France |
| Bottle Size | 750 mL |
| SKU | 2073113 |
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