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Perrot Minot, Mazoyeres Chambertin Grand Cru Vieilles Vignes 2013
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Description
Perrot Minot, Mazoyeres Chambertin, Grand Cru, VV, Burgundy, France, Still, Red, 2011
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Antonio Galloni
Elusive and ethereal, the 2013 Mazoyères-Chambertin captures the essence of this great site. Violets, lavender, sage, menthol and plums are all laced together in a deep yet weightless Burgundy endowed with stunning finesse and class. Today, the Mazoyères comes across as seriously tannic and closed, which is likely a good thing for the future.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Healthy dark red. Highly aromatic nose offers scents of raspberry, allspice, gingerbread and wild herbs, along with a hint of wildness. Concentrated and creamy in the mouth, conveying a strong savory character to the red berry, spice and underbrush flavors. This was vinified with 100% whole clusters but comes across as even sweeter than the Charmes. Finishes with smooth tannins and lovely perfumed persistence.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Bright medium red. High-toned aromas of musky raspberry, game and underbrush. Lush, sweet and full, with a creamy old-vines texture but no undue weight. The 100% whole-cluster vinification brings a less compact style and gives the wine a light touch, says Perrot-Minot. Smoky, quite ripe and expressive, if not quite as fruity today as some of these 2013s. Incidentally, Perrot-Minot insisted that his wines are usually bottled with no more than 0.35 grams/liter volatile acidity, which is quite low; it's their fuller ripeness that gives them aromatic lift.
Reviewed by: Neal Martin
The 2013 Mazoyeres-Chambertin Grand Cru, which is matured in around 30% new oak, has a very harmonious bouquet with raspberry, strawberry pastilles and a touch of iodine developing with aeration. The palate is medium-bodied with tensile tannins that are suppler than the Charmes- or Chapelle-Chambertin, thereby lending the finish ample roundness to complement the structure underneath. Give this several years in bottle – this is a very capable Mazoyeres.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Elusive and ethereal, the 2013 Mazoyères-Chambertin captures the essence of this great site. Violets, lavender, sage, menthol and plums are all laced together in a deep yet weightless Burgundy endowed with stunning finesse and class. Today, the Mazoyères comes across as seriously tannic and closed, which is likely a good thing for the future.
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.
