2017 Chambolle-Musigny 1. Cru Les Combottes Domaine Henri Felettig

Firm reduction. The sleek, refined and highly energetic middle weight flavors retain a lovely sense of delineation while exhibiting fine length on the stony, austere and balanced finale. This will need to add more depth but the underlying material is present such that it should occur and my predicted range implicitly assumes that it will. 2024+

Another of the highlights of the range is the 2017 Chambolle-Musigny 1er Cru Les Combottes, a lovely wine that wafts from the glass with aromas of sweet wild berries, cherries, potpourri and a generous application of toasty new oak that will settle down with a bit of bottle age. On the palate, the wine is medium to full-bodied, velvety and nicely concentrated, structured around rich, powdery tannins and lively acids, concluding with good length on the finish.

The 2017 Chambolle-Musigny Les Combottes 1er Cru comes from vines over 60 years old and sees around 60% new oak. The bouquet is more introspective and the fruit blacker than the Les Fuées, featuring blackberry and bilberry tinged with earthy, sous-bois aromas. The dense, sinewy palate is medium-bodied with supple tannin and fine acidity, though I miss the finesse shown by the Les Fuées on the finish. Give this several years in bottle.