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Cecile Tremblay, Chambolle Musigny Les Cabottes 2014
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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(from three parcels, two of them on rocky shallow soil and all three in relatively sunny spots; Tremblay has cut back on her use of new oak for this wine owing to the natural reductiveness of the terroir): Good deep red. Raspberry and musky coffee on the nose. Juicy, precise and gripping if a bit reduced, conveying lovely grip and precision to the flavors of dark raspberry, crushed rock and smoky minerality. A touch drying on the finish and tricky to taste today in its reductive state.
About the Producer
Cecile TREMBLAY descends from a long line of vignerons. The story begins in 1921, with the union of Cécile’s great-grandparents, Edouard Jayer, a cooper in Nuits-Saint-Georges, and Esther Fournier who inherited vineyards from her family. Together they established and developed their own Domaine. The domaine’s vineyards were then eventually passed down to their five children. Renée, the youngest daughter, kept her share of the vineyards under métayage. Later on, Renée’s only daughter, Marie-Annick, grew the family holdings with her husband while keeping all vineyards under métayage. Cécile Tremblay, who had studied enology and viticulture in Dijon, reclaimed the family heritage and took over the management of the vineyards in 2002. A year later, Cécile bottled her first wines, Domaine Cécile Tremblay was born!
