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Perrot Minot, Chambertin Clos de Beze Grand Cru Vieilles Vignes 2013
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Description
Perrot Minot, Chambertin Clos De Beze, Grand Cru, VV, Burgundy, France, Still, Red, 2013
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
The 2013 Chambertin-Clos de Bèze is a wine for all the senses. Powerful yet also delicate at the same time, the Bèze captures all the nuance that makes Burgundy so compelling. Layers of flavor build effortlessly as this sublime wine shows off its considerable pedigree. Violets, lavender, spice and hard candy punctuate the exceptionally polished finish. This is a fabulous wine in the making and real head-turner.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Good dark red. Spectacular nose offers pungent, peppery aromas of raspberry, blood orange and white flowers, plus an exotic peach note. At once round and penetrating, offering outstanding density and precision to its flavors of red berries, flowers, crushed rock, melon and peach. Exhilarating, sappy Clos de Bèze with incredible intensity and length, not to mention a rare combination of volume and definition. Wonderfully suave, edge-free wine with captivating aromatic character.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
(the yield here was just 20 hectoliters per hectare, according to Perrot-Minot): Bright, dark red. Pure, focused, youthfully restrained aromas of wild raspberry, crushed rock and white pepper suggest tiny grapes. Then juicy, vigorous and densely packed, showing outstanding sappy intensity and precision to the flavors of raspberry, cherry, menthol, mint, white flowers and orange zest. Wonderfully cool, vibrant finishing flavors are energized by crushed rock. This potentially stunning wine will require extended cellaring to fully blossom in the bottle.
Reviewed by: Neal Martin
The 2013 Chambertin Clos-de-Bèze has a very refined and elegant bouquet with redcurrant, raspberry coulis and wet limestone scents. There is clearly very good transparency here, the terroir articulated with some panache. The palate is medium-bodied with crisp tannins. It is very focused with a sense of symmetry and poise, gradually building toward a spicy finish that feels long and tender. Excellent.
About the Producer
Perrot Minot's attitude toward Perrot Minot Biodiversity encouraged For several years, Christophe Perrot-Minot has favored the use of products approved for organic farming and reduced the doses of conventional products prescribed, thanks to the observation of the weather, wind, humidity and heat. It also strives to recreate a microbial life in its soils and to improve its structure by practicing systematic plowing and winter ridging of the feet. Limited returns Guyot pruning is relatively short to limit the release of grapes and allow good ripening of the berries. The practice of leaf stripping and green harvesting can be useful depending on the vintage to guarantee optimum ripeness of the fruit. Very supervised harvests The harvest is exclusively manual and sorted a first time in the vineyard, then transported in small crates for a second passage on a sorting table. All the grapes are cut in half to check their sanitary condition and to eliminate any that are not perfectly ripe. Depending on the vintage, a proportion of the whole harvest is put into vats. It is transported in small bins, which allows the logs to be kept intact and the most natural and accurate expression of the terroir possible. The logs are calibrated in order to keep only the source millerandage of the oldest and most authentic vines. The estate is looking for a production of around 25 to 30 hl/ha for the whole production.
