Domaine Faiveley, Chambolle Musigny 1er Cru La Combe d'Orveau 2011

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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer

Bright medium red. Musky redcurrant, leather and game on the nose, complicated by a saline quality. Smooth and plump in the mouth, offering good balance to its moderately intense flavors of minerals, spices and earth. This wine started out youthfully stunted but with 24 hours in the recorked bottle higher-pitched notes of raspberry and blood orange emerged. Not at all showy today but should reward four or five years of cellaring.

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Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer

(25% vendange entier; the lieu-dit is Petit Musigny): Medium red. Raspberry, pungent smoky minerality and truffley underbrush on the perfumed nose. Juicy, tactile and saline, with musky red raspberry fruit complicated by crushed-stone minerality. Mounts impressively on the chewy aftertaste.