2016 Chambolle-Musigny Vieilles Vignes Domaine Perrot-Minot

(from 90 to 100 year old vines in Les Bussières where ~40% of the blend is from four different 1ers). A more elegant and complex nose combines notes of dark raspberry, cherry, violet, lavender and pretty spice whiffs. The sleek, intense and mineral-inflected middle weight plus flavors brim with dry extract as well as a highly attractive underlying tension while delivering first-rate depth and persistence on the balanced finish. While it's true that almost half of the blend is from premier cru vineyards, this is still a superb Chambolle villages and very much worth your attention. Drink 2024+

(Perrot-Minot's only Chambolle cuvée in 2016, consisting of five barrels of village wine and four of premier cru): Bright, dark red. Sexy scents of red berries, spices, wild herbs and rose petal. A step up in intensity from the village Morey, offering a seamless texture and also brisk minerality to its flavors of sappy red berries and spices. Still a bit youthfully clenched but the spicy, subtly palate-staining features lovely stony mineral grip. Perrot-Minot says that this wine does not have the breed or complexity to be bottled as premier cru owing to its moderate ripeness but it will nonetheless be a 2016 to seek out.