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Perrot Minot, Mazoyeres Chambertin Grand Cru Vieilles Vignes 2015
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Description
Perrot Minot, Mazoyeres Chambertin, Grand Cru, VV, Burgundy, France, Still, Red, 2011
Tasting notes
Reviewed by: Neal Martin
The 2015 Mazoyères-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru has the most vivacious and intense bouquet amongst Christophe's 2015s, billowing red and dark cherries, creme de cassis, crushed violets and blood orange. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and extremely well-judged acidity. As such, there is outstanding focus here and a sense of precision running all the way through to the finish. This is a seriously fine Mazoyères-Chambertin that must rank as one of the best this domaine has produced.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Saturated dark red. A bit less high-pitched on the nose than the Charmes-Chambertin, dominated by musky soil tones and flinty minerality. Then wonderfully plush, concentrated and seamless on the palate--totally different in style from the Charmes. This boasts the texture and thickness of the best 2015s, but will need time to find its ultimate harmony. Finishes with a considerable mass of tannins and strong medicinal reserve. Still holding something back, this wine may yet make my score look overly conservative.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Bright dark red. Soil-driven scents of smoky silex minerality and iron lifted by a high note of peppery spices. Very rich, deep and powerful, with a compellingly chewy, penetrating quality to its dark raspberry and flinty mineral flavors. The wine's substantial firm tannins are perfectly supported by crushed-stone extract. A wonderfully tactile, serious Mazoyères in the making, and showing more in the early going than the more elegantly styled Charmes.
Reviewed by: Neal Martin
The 2015 Mazoyères-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes Grand Cru has the most vivacious and intense bouquet amongst Christophe's 2015s, billowing red and dark cherries, creme de cassis, crushed violets and blood orange. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannin and extremely well-judged acidity. As such, there is outstanding focus here and a sense of precision running all the way through to the finish. This is a seriously fine Mazoyères-Chambertin that must rank as one of the best this domaine has produced.
Reviewed by: Stephen Tanzer
Bright dark red. Soil-driven scents of smoky silex minerality and iron lifted by a high note of peppery spices. Very rich, deep and powerful, with a compellingly chewy, penetrating quality to its dark raspberry and flinty mineral flavors. The wine's substantial firm tannins are perfectly supported by crushed-stone extract. A wonderfully tactile, serious Mazoyères in the making, and showing more in the early going than the more elegantly styled Charmes.
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.
